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CONTENTS. 

Book of Departure. 
Introduction. 

Part I. Redemption by Blood. 

a. The People. 

b. The Plagues. 

c. The Passover. 

d. The Passing Out. 

Part II. Sanctification by Power. 

a. The Testing. 

b. The Tablets. 

c. The Theocracy. 

d. The Tabernacle. 



FOREWORD 

The lessons on the Book of Exodus are compiled that 
the student of the Bible may see how thoroughly the 
Gospel is interwoven throughout the entire Scriptures 
and how impossible it is for one to understand and 
rightly interpret the New Testament without a knowl- 
edge of the Old. It is Sir Robert Anderson who most 
truly says — 

"But why, it may be asked, should we study the 
Old Testament when the New Testament lies open 
before us? The ready answer is, that never in the 
history of Christendom was the typology of the Penta- 
teuch more needed than to-day. So utter is the blind- 
ness, so deep the apostacy, of the present hour, that on 
every hand popular leaders of religious thought are 
commending, as the outcome of a new enlightenment, 
a gospel that betrays ignorance of 'the first principles 
of the oracles of God/ the very A B C of the divine 
revelation to mankind/' 

1 Cor. 10:6-11 assures us the whole of Israel's his- 
tory is for our "Ensample." 

A type pre-figures — foreshadows — something to 
come. It is an acted parable. 

It must be a true picture. 

Symbols and types differ. 

A symbol has reference to the present. 

A type to the future. 

Symbols were God's method of teaching Israel, but 
become types to us as explained in Hebrews. A thing 
evil of itself can never become a type of good. For ex- 
ample — leaven ; Egypt, etc. 

In the famous Tribuna of the Uffizi Gallery at Flor- 
ence, a tourist, armed with his guide-book, went up to 
the curator, "Are these your masterpieces?" he asked. 



6 FOKEWOKD 

"I certainly don't see much in them myself. ,, "Sir," 
said the curator, "these pictures are not on trial ; it is 
the visitors who are on trial. " It was not Jesus who 
was on His trial, but Pilate. 

It is not the Bible which is on trial ; it is man who is 
tested by the Book. 

Heb. 12 :3. "Consider Him" is the key to the whole 
of Israel's experience. 

We have all seen the picture puzzles often inserted 
in our daily papers, and looked and looked and looked, 
seeing nothing but crooked lines, queer shapes and 
even sometimes blots. But upon closer observation 
have we not sometimes been rewarded by seeing with- 
in the lines of confusion, a picture revealed, not at first 
discernible to the casual observer? But to us who dis- 
cover it, it becomes the central figure of the puzzle. 
And we never fail to find it, no matter how often we 
turn to that particular page again. 

As in the puzzle picture with its hidden illustration 
which once discovered is always seen, so Christ in the 
Old Testament is the hidden figure — Search for Him 
until you find Him. In other words we believe what 
God our Father tells us in His Word, though all the 
world testifies to the contrary — God is Truth. 

Two children were playing on a hillside, when they 
noticed that the hour was nearing sunset, and one said 
wonderingly, "See how far the sun has gone ! A little 
while ago it was right over that tree, and now it is 
low down in the sky." "Only it isn't the sun that 
moves, it's the earth. You know, father told us," an- 
swered the other. The first one shook his head. The 
sun did move, for he had seen it ; and the earth did not 
move, for he had been standing on it all the time. "I 
know what I see," he said triumphantly. "And I be- 
lieve father," said his brother. So mankind divides still 
— some accepting only what their senses reveal to 
them, and others believing the Word of God. 



FOREWOKD 7 

Only the Gospel of Grace as revealed in the Cross 
of Christ is founded upon the Law and Righteousness 
of God, and this Law and this Righteousness are taught 
in the Old Testament as nowhere else. To overlook 
or ignore this is to write one's self ignorant of the very 
teaching of the Gospel. May God teach us each one the 
surety of our Salvation, that it is built on nothing less 
than Jesus' blood and righteousness. 

I When J. Wilbur Chapman, years ago, was having 
difficulty with the question as to whether or not he was 
saved, and came to Mr. Moody with the statement that 
while he wanted to be sure of his salvation, neverthe- 
less somehow he could not seem to believe, Moody 
turned on him sharply and asked, "Whom can't you 
believe?" Instantly Chapman saw the light. Was he 
daring to say that he could not believe God? Of course 
not; he could always believe God. He saw that that 
w r as all that is necessary. 

John 5:24. 

24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and 
believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall 
not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 

Eph. 2:11-22. 

II Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles 
in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is 
called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands: 

12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from 
the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants 
of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 

13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are 
made nigh by the blood of Christ, 

14 For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath 
broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 

15 Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of 
commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Him- 
self of twain one new man, so making peace; 

16 And that He might reconcile both unto God in one body 
by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 

17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, 
and to them that were nigh. 

18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto 
the Father. 



8 FOREWORD 

19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, 
but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 

20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and 
prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone; 

21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto 
an holy temple in the Lord: 

22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of 
God through the Spirit. 



PREFACE 



The further study of the reader is directed to the fol- 
lowing books from which the material used in the 
compilation of these lessons has been freely borrowed. 

Exodus by C. H. Macintosh. 

The Pentateuch by William Evans, Ph. D., D. D. 

The Numerical Bible by F. W. Grant. 

Christ in the Bible by A. B. Simpson, D. D. 



Synthetic Bible 
Studies 

Old Testament 
Types 

The Tabernacle 

Notes on Exodus 

Notes 

Reference Bible 



by James Gray, D. D. , 

by William B. Riley. h 
by George B. Soltau. 
by Leon Tucker, D. D. 
by I. M. Haldeman, D. D. 
by C. I. Scofield, D. D. 



THE PEOPLE 



A strange, bewildering people, 

The Israelitish race, 
Whom God chose from the nations 

To magnify His grace. 
At first they were but feeble, 

Yet fast their numbers grew, 
Until in every country 

Today we find the Jew. 

A proverb and a by-word, 

Accursed in many lands, 
And yet forever graven 

Upon Jehovah's hands. 
Of. ages past the wonder, 

A marvel still today. 
They rode in Pharaoh's chariot 

Then made him bricks from clay. 

We see them still adapting 

Themselves to every clime, 
And spite of persecution, 

How bright their talents shine! 
Defying competition, 

They oft win wealth and power, 
And rise to great distinction 

Even in oppression's hour. 

Not numbered with the people, 

We see them dwell alone, 
Without a king or temple, 

Far from their native home. 
Dead as a body-politic, 

Immortal as a race, 
They are a perplexity problem 

For nations now to face. 



THE LAND 



When God called forth this people, 

He chose for them a land — 
A perfect microcosm — 

Prepared by His own hand; 
A land that knew no scarceness, 

Where plenty did abound, 
And there placed them as tenants 

To occupy His ground. 

He laid no burdens on them — 

No rent or tax to pay; 
They simply had as children 

His precepts to obey. 
But soon they disobeyed Him. 

His Son and servants slew, 
So scattered through the nations 

Today we find the Jew. 

And Canaan, glorious Canaan, 

Once richly blest of God, 
Is now most sore afflicted 

Beneath His chastening rod. 
Her glory has departed, 

Laid low her Temple grand; 
The besom of affliction 

Has swept "the Promised Land." 

A bone of sore contention 

The country is today; 
Each Power desires to have it, 

But none dare snatch the prey. 
Yet Palestine, the famous, 

Land of Messiah's birth, 
Shall shine again with splendor — 

The center of the earth! 



AND THE BOOK 



Then to this land and people 

The Oracles were given, 
And code of laws the wisest 

Was framed for them in heaven- 
God's Holy Book, the Bible 

Old, and yet ever new 
His perfect revelation 

For Gentile and for Jew. 

The Devil knows and fears it, 

And has in every age 
Waged bitter war against it 

Through infidel and sage. 
No other proofs are needed 

To show God's Word is true 
Than those that are before us — 

The Book, the Land, the Jew. 

Never has sage or Satan 

Broken this threefold cord — 
Firm as the Rock of Ages, 

Strong as Jehovah's Word. 
Come, Lord, in mighty power! 

Then shall the nations see 
The Book, the Land, the People, 

Alike belong to Thee. 



LESSON I, 

BOOK OF DEPARTURE. 
INTRODUCTION. 



THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Introduction. 

The Book of Genesis is Family History. 

The Book of Exodus is National History. 

Individuals, families, clans are now organized into a 
Nation. The head of the family as the priest, which we 
saw was entailed in the gift of the birthright, now gives 
way to the institution of the Levitical Priesthood. The 
family altar is replaced by the Tabernacle. 

In Genesis God gives Jacob a new name when He 
appears to him at Peniel, but when God appeared to 
Moses in the burning bush it was to reveal to him the 
work he was to do for the Nation. In Genesis long ac- 
counts are given of individuals and God's personal 
dealings with them, but in Exodus even as great a man 
as Moses is only dealt with because of his connection 
with the national life of Israel, therefore we see that 
not the problem of individual life as in Genesis, but 
the greater problems of national issues, is the main 
theme of Exodus. 

As this Exodus, or "going out," of the people was ac- 
complished only through redemption, we see the type 
fulfilled in the life of Christ Who finished the work 
which Moses only began. In Luke 9:31, — 

31 Who appeared in glory, and spake of His decease which He 
should accomplish at Jerusalem. 

we read that at the time of the Transfiguration there 
appeared this same Moses with Elias to Jesus, and they 
talked of His decease, the literal meaning of which is 
exodus, "going out," which Christ should accomplish, 
complete, or completely fulfill, at Jerusalem. So we 
see most clearly that our redemption is as Israel's was 



16 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

by blood, not of bulls and of goats which could never 
sanctify, but by the precious blood of Christ. 

Hebs. 9:12-15. 

12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own 
blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained 
eternal redemption for us. 

13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an 
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the 
flesh : 

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the 
eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your 
conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 

15 And for this cause He is the mediator of the New Testament, 
that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgres- 
sions that were under the first testament, they which are called 
might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 

The meaning of the word Exodus is, — "Going out," 
— and Exodus is a continuation of the first Book of the 
Bible, Genesis, which means, — Beginning. 

Exodus has neither beginning nor ending, but is a 
continuation of God's message to man, and is followed 
without interruption by Leviticus, the Book of the 
Law. 

Genesis closes with the Children of Israel in Egypt, 
and Exodus opens with them still there. When Exo- 
dus closes they have passed from Egypt into the Wil- 
derness. Exodus begins with the words "Now these 
are the names of the Children of Israel," continuing the 
account given of them in Genesis, and is followed in 
Leviticus by the words, — "And the Lord called unto 
Moses." 

It is easily divided into the following parts by chap- 
ters : — 

1. The Bondage of Israel, 

2. The Deliverer in Moses, 

3. The Opposition of Pharaoh, 

4. The Result of the Passover, 

5. The Guidance and Protection of 
Jehovah, 



Chap. 


1-2 


Chap. 


3-4 


Chap. 


5-11 


Chap. 


12 


Chap. 


13-14 



BOOK OF DEPAKTUBE 17 

6. The Murmuring and Rebellion of 

the People, Chap. 15-18 

7. The Judgment Pronounced and the 

Law Given, Chap. 19-23 

8. The Pardon Bestowed and Taber- 
nacle set up, Chap. 24-40 

The Keyword of Exodus is, — "Passover;" and the 
Keytext is Chapter 12':11, — "Ye shall eat it, in haste, 
it is the Lord's Passover;" and its meaning or fulfill- 
ment is found in 1 Cor. 5 :7, 8, — 

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new 
lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is 
sacrificed for us: 

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither 
with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleav- 
ened bread of sincerity and truth. 

In the New Testament, the Book of Galatians, is the 
explanation of Exodus, and should be read in connec- 
tion with it, and Hebrews is wholly taken up in ex- 
plaining the old Types, ceremonies, and sacrifices. 

The Book of Genesis spells failure. In every test 
God applied to man he fell. First, innocence with a 
simple command. Second, under promise with a con- 
science. Third, under government. Fourth, by a cov- 
enant, etc., and yet, — The Fall, the Flood, Babel and 
Egypt, all witness to the failure of the human race. 

Now in Exodus we see God stepping in with His 
remedy and His provision. Redemption by blood, 
Deliverance by power. Only when man comes to an 
end of his resources can God take him up and do for 
him, for only then will man ever yield to God and sub- 
mit and obey. Therefore Israel in Egypt had to come 
to the end of their ability to do aught for themselves 
before they would leave all and follow Him. 

An eminent divine used to say the only claim he had 
on God was that sometimes he was so miserable he had 
no where else to turn. It is as the Psalmist says "when 



18 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

thy father and mother forsake thee, then the Lord will 
take thee up." 

Father and mother represent here — the natural sup- 
port, the earthly help, the human care we have always 
relied upon. When this fails us God is ready to step 
in and supply all our need through Christ Jesus, our 
Lord. 

So the first lesson Exodus teaches us is that God's 
plan will never be frustrated. Satan may attack 
and does. Man may fail and does. Blessings may be 
neglected and postponed, yet God has His plan and 
in His own time by His own power He will carry that 
plan through, and blessed are those who see this and 
get into the plan while there is time. Dr. Thomas says : 
"God wonderfully takes up the threads of our mis- 
takes, and faults, and sins, and weaves them into His 
pattern for our lives. " But there is also a solemn les- 
son here — there comes a time when it is too late. Any 
Israelite who refused or neglected to go out when God 
had opened the way never got another chance, it was 
the night of the Passover or never. So to-day, the 
Gospel calls, it is now or never, if we are to be saved. 

The Book of Exodus is the inspired record of Israel's 
deliverance from Egypt, the bondage under Pharaoh, 
and their entering into covenant relationship with Je- 
hovah at Mt. Sinai, through the law and ordinances 
connected with the Tabernacle and Priesthood. It is 
the great spiritual type of the redemption of the peo- 
ple of God through the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, 
and the New Covenant through Grace whereby they 
have access to the Holy of Holies and become them- 
selves priests unto God. 

As we trace the steps therefore of God's dealings 
with His chosen people, Israel, let us never forget to 
see in them the steps by which He deals with us His 
new body, the Church, His peculiar treasure. While 
the rewards for Israel and the Church are always dif- 
ferent, Israel's being earthly, the Church's heavenly, 
yet the steps by which Israel was redeemed were typ- 



BOOK OF DEPAETUKE 19 

ical of the spiritual steps, by which also the Church is 
redeemed by Blood and by Power. 

First, we must look back and ask ourselves, — Why 
was Israel in Egypt? Egypt we know to be the type 
of the world, — No place for God's people to be living 
in. The call has always been, will always be, — Come 
out from among them and be ye separate, saith the 
Lord. 

2 Cor. 6:17-18. 

17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, 
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will re- 
ceive you, 

18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons 
and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. 

Israel was in Egypt because of sin. The sin of Jo- 
seph's brethren towards him led them to famine, and 
famine led them down to Egypt, and God allowed them 
through much suffering, making their lives hard with 
rigour, to be chastened and made ready to listen to 
Him, and at His call to leave all and follow Him. God 
was behind all their experiences keeping watch over 
His own. Behind all Job's afflictions brought upon him 
by Satan was God, and when He had tried him he 
came forth as gold. Our very sufferings are known and 
permitted by God and are for the purpose of detaching 
us from sin and the world, and as soon as we will listen 
we will be led out by a strong hand into a rich country 
prepared of God for all those who love Him. 

It is an interesting scientific fact that heated bodies 
emit light. "Platinum wire heated to about 865 degrees 
gives out in the dark a faint gleam of light, the rays 
of which are a lavender-grey color, the first transition 
from darkness to ordinary light. The wire heated to 
about 1,000 degrees emits light which is of a dull red 
and visible in the day light. Increasing the tempera- 
ture to 1,700 degrees, the glowing wire emits an or- 
ange light, and when raised to the highest degree of 
heat, a dazzling white light is emitted, which is dis- 
cernible only as it comes in contact with substance." 



20 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

This light-producing power of heat helps us under- 
stand how God permits different degrees of trial and 
persecution, and uses them to produce in the life of 
His children a light of holy character, which beauti- 
fies and glorifies that on which it falls. 
Matt. 5:16 

16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your 
good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 

Rev. 21:11. 

11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a 
stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 

Bricks with straw were hard enough to make, but 
when it came to making bricks without straw, the task 
became well nigh impossible. 

Some months ago, a few ladies, who met together 
in Dublin to read the Scriptures, and make them the 
subject of conversation, were reading the third chapter 
of Malachi. One of the ladies gave it as her opinion 
that the Fuller's Soap and the Refiner of Silver were 
the same image, both intended to convey the same view 
of the sanctifying influence of the grace of Christ; 
while another observed, "There is something remark- 
able in the expression, . 

'He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver/ " 

They agreed that possibly it might be so, and one 
of the ladies promised to call on a silversmith, and re- 
port to them what he said on the subject. She went ac- 
cordingly, and without telling the object of her er- 
rand, begged to know from him the process of refin- 
ing silver, which he fully described to her. "But, sir," 
said she, "do you sit while the work of refining is go- 
ing on?" "Oh, yes, madam," replied the silversmith; 
"I must sit with my eye steadily fixed on the furnace, 
for if the time necessary for refining be exceeded in the 
slightest degree, the silver is sure to be injured." At 
once she saw the beauty, and the comfort too, of the ex- 
pression, "He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of sil- 
ver." 



BOOK OF DEPAETUEE 21 

Christ sees it needful to put His children into the fur- 
nace ; but He is seated by the side of it ; His eye is 
steadily intent on the work of purifying; and His 
wisdom and love are both engaged in the best man- 
ner for them. Their trials do not come at random ; the 
very hairs of their head are all numbered. 

As the lady was leaving the shop, the silversmith 
called her back, and said he had still further to men- 
tion that he only knew when the process of purifying 
was complete by seeing his own image reflected in the 
silver. Beautiful figure ! When Christ sees His own 
image in His people, His work of purifying is ac- 
complished. 

The Second Lesson we learn is that God keeps close 
watch over each individual and a record of all his do- 
ings. A very solemn thought. Jacob's sons are named 
individually, and all seem to have inherited that "limp" 
of Jacob's. Almost every name is stained with sin. 
How truly God holds up the mirror of His own purity 
and shows us that there is none righteous, no not one. 
And right beside the mirror He also holds the cleans- 
ing fountain in which if we will but bathe we shall be 
whiter than snow. 

A little boy was once promised a visit to the circus 
by his father, provided he was all ready, washed and 
dressed by one o'clock that afternoon. 

As soon as the father had disappeared down the 
street the little fellow commenced to tease his mother 
to wash and dress him for the circus, that he might be 
ready in plenty of time. Every one who has ever been 
a child knows the situation. 

After remonstrating with him for some time and 
warning him that he would get his clean clothes all 
dirty long before circus time arrived if he put them 
on so early, the mother yielded to his insistence in order 
to gain some peace. 

We all know what happened. 

When the father appeared at one o'clock it was to 
find an impatient, hot, dirty little boy waiting for him. 



22 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Explanations were of no avail. The boy insisted that 
he was clean, that mother had dressed him specially 
for the occasion, and no amount of arguing moved him 
a hair's breadth. 

Very quietly the father picked him up and placed 
him before a mirror. All the boy had to do was to see 
what the mirror revealed. 

So God's Word is a mirror in which we have only to 
look to see our own uncleanness. 

But — the father did not cleanse the boy by the mir- 
ror. Oh, no ; he washed him. 

Even so while God's law shows us what we are in 
His sight, it is not by the law that we are cleansed ; 
but by the fountain which He has provided for all un- 
cleanness. 

From each son came a tribe, and each son was called 
a prince and became a foundation stone of a great na- 
tion. This is grace. A crowd of sinners changed by 
grace into a nation of kings and priests, and when God 
writes His roll of honor in Hebrews 11, the stain is all 
washed away, and lo, the names glow with divine 
glory. What a comfort for us. We with them can be 
changed from sinners to saints by the same faith. They 
believed God and it was counted unto them for right- 
eousness. If we believe we have life through His Son. 
Some day the stain will be forgotten and only the glory 
remain. 

There are lessons for us in these genealogies (names), 
and in the genealogy of Christ as well. There too ap- 
pear the sin-stained names. "For verily He took not 
on Him the nature of angels, but He took on Him the 
seed of Abraham." 

Hebs. 2:16-18. 

16 For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but 
He took on Him the seed of Abraham. 

17 Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like 
unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful 
high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation 
for the sins of the people. 



BOOK OF DEPARTURE 23 

18 For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is 
able to succour them that are tempted. 

2 Cor. 5:21. 

21 For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; 
that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. 

"Can it be that Christ came through all kinds of men 
that He might save all kinds ?" God Who sees the end, 
marks that for us to dwell upon. These all gained the 
victory through faith. 

And next notice the perfectly remarkable increase of 
the nation in Egypt. God blessed them, kept His prom- 
ise to Abraham, and greatly multiplied the people. 
Ps. 105:23,24. 

23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the 
land of Ham. 

24 And He increased His people greatly; and made them 
stronger than their enemies. 

He seems to teach that the increase was miraculous, 
by the power of God, and so we would say it was to- 
day, not only the increase miraculous, the number of 
Jews in the world almost uncountable, but their pres- 
ervation in such vast numbers in hostile countries. 
Take the Jew in Russia today, persecuted and yet 
increasing. 

Dr. S. H. Kellogg gives some most interesting sta- 
tistics of their rapid increase of late. Their number 
was estimated one hundred and seventy-five years ago 
at three million ; now it is reckoned to be no less than 
twelve million. Their births are represented every- 
where to exceed those of the sorrowing Gentiles as- 
tonishingly ; though they live so often under the most 
unwholesome sanitary conditions, in suffering and 
woeful persecution. All this would seem to indicate 
that the time is surely approaching "like as it was to 
Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of 
Egypt." 



24 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Is. 11:16. 

16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of His 
people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Is- 
rael in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. 

When Abraham was first given the promise, there 
were only about seventy souls (males) who descended 
into Egypt. When Jacob came down with his sons 
there were again seventy. 66 came with Jacob, Jo- 
seph and his two sons add 3, making 69, and Jacob him- 
self adds another making the 70. Now if we add to 
these Ephraim and his 4 sons you have 75 souls in all, 
and from this handful in 430 years had come a vast 
multitude, 600,000 men besides women and children, 
and a mixed multitude, (probably intermarried Egyp- 
tians), who followed on, who went out from Egypt just 
exactly 430 years to the day from the time they had 
gone down into Egypt. 

It may be interesting in this connection to draw at- 
tention to a note made by a Professor Curtis who re- 
fers to a volume of family memoirs which says that five 
thousand five hundred and sixty-four persons are 
known to be descended from Lieutenant John Hollister 
who immigrated to America in 1642. This is probably 
equal to the ratio of the increase of the children of Is- 
rael in Egypt. 

So we learn that God watches, God keeps His prom- 
ises, God works according to His own time. All we 
have to do is trust, obey and wait for God's clock to 
strike. Nothing can defeat His plan or His purpose for 
His own. What confidence, courage and comfort 
this knowledge gives us, and where do we find it but 
just in this very Word of God, and the Old Testament 
is the granite rock for our faith to build upon, because 
there we see again and again the accomplishment of 
God's prophecies and the fulfillments of His covenants, 
and He is the same yesterday, today and forever. From 
everlasting to everlasting He is God. 

Third. We see the oppression of Israel in Egypt. 
Perhaps we had better consider just what Egypt was 



BOOK OF DEPARTURE 25 

and what it is typical of throughout Scripture. The 
name for Egypt in Scripture is "Mizraim," which 
means "double <straitness," or "double strip/' and this 
describes exactly what Egypt is. It is a little strip of 
country on each side of the great river which flows 
through it, and to which alone it owes its existence. 
For the desert on each side hems it in, blowing in its 
sands from all directions, over which the river, in its 
yearly overflow, deposits its burden of earth and re- 
news the soil. Thus goes on, as in the world at large, 
a perpetual conflict between life and death. If for one 
year the river but partially fails, the land is in distress. 
And such is the world, in which the Stream of God's 
Mercies in its uninterrupted flow maintains what would 
otherwise be impossible existence. 

Yet this Egypt within its narrow limits was remark- 
able as the abode of the arts and sciences, the home of 
civilization. Still people go down there, — for you "go 
down," not "up" to Egypt, — to study her wonderful 
monuments and admire her massive architecture. 
Egypt built as if she had eternity before her in which 
to enjoy it. Her buildings were made to outlast by 
ages the people of a day who builded them. They could 
not make the people last, yet they did what they could 
at that too ; they embalmed their dead, and sent them 
down to the generations yet to come, solemn preachers 
of the vanity attaching to all that is human. What a 
comment upon all her grandeur! Her main literary 
memorial is a "book of the dead." 

Their worship was a deification really, however, as 
all heathen worship is, — of their own lusts and pas- 
sions, and these are what everywhere naturally control 
man. The bait in Eden was, "Ye shall be as God;" 
and man has found that true in an awful way. He has 
become his own god, as the apostle says of some, even 
professing Christians. Their "god is their belly." 
The craving in man's heart for satisfaction not being 
met in God, lust and care devour him, he worships him- 



26 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

self in a way which tends evermore to what is brutaliz- 
ing and degrading, fourfooted beasts, etc. 

Bom. 1:18-25. * 

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all 
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in 
unrighteousness; 

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in 
them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 

20 For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the 
world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are 
made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are 
without excuse : 

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not 
as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imagi- 
nations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an 
image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted 
beasts, and creeping tilings. 

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through 
the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies be- 
tween themselves: 

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped 
and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed 
for ever. Amen. 

Man, the natural man, does not want a God holier 
than himself. He wants a religious excuse for his 
own passions. Hence the gods of mythology are all 
licentious. The gods of the heathen animal in their 
representations. God, alone, the God of the Scriptures 
insists upon absolute holiness in His worshippers. Such 
is man in the flesh, such is the world, and being such, 
we are led easily to realize what king reigns over it — 
Satan, the prince of this world. 

There seems to be no doubt that the race of Kings 
who changed the Egyptian policy towards the He- 
brews into bitter hostility and cruel oppression, was 
the dynasty that expelled the Shepherd Kings, and 
that the chief figure in this oppression was the great- 
est of Egyptian sovereigns, known to us in the na- 
tive records as Rameses II, and in Grecian history as 
Sesostris. A few years ago his sarcophagus was dis- 



BOOK OF DEPAETUEE 27 

covered, and his remains have been unveiled and placed 
on exhibition in the celebrated museum at Bulak. It is 
one of the transformations of history and an example 
of the vanity of human greatness, that the figure which 
was the terror of the world and the tyrant of the chil- 
dren of God, is a helpless and impotent specimen to- 
day, in a glass case in an Egyptian museum. 

So Satan will some day be an impotent, withered 
thing, whose power will be utterly destroyed by Al- 
mighty God, and we will wonder that we ever feared 
him ; and yet while he lives and wrorks he is our deadly 
enemy and greatly to be feared. 

Only the power of Christ is able to deliver a soul out 
of his hand. 

Exodus 5:8-23. 

8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, 
ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: 
for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sac- 
rifice to our God. 

9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may 
labour therein; and let them not regard vain words. 

10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their of- 
ficers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, 
I will not give you straw. 

11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it : yet not ought of 
your work shall be diminished. 

12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land 
of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. 

13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, 
your daily tasks, as when there was straw. 

14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's 
taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, 
Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both 
yesterday and fo day, as heretofore? 

15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried 
unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy 
servants ? 

16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to 
us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the 
fault is in thine own people. 

17 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let 
us go and do sacrifice to the Lord. 

18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be 
given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. 



28 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they 
were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought 
from your bricks of your daily task. 

20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as 
they came forth from Pharaoh : 

21 And they said unto them, The Lord look upon you, and 
judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the 
eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword 
in their hand to slay us. 

22 And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Lord, where- 
fore hast Thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that Thou 
hast sent me? 

23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Thy name, he hath 
done evil to this people; neither hast Thou delivered Thy peo- 
ple at all. 

Joseph their preserver, the link that bound them to 
the throne for protection, had died and many years 
rolled over their heads until a time came when the 
reigning king knew little of their past, knew not Joseph 
and all that Egypt owed him, knew only that a large 
foreign population was growing rapidly in the midst of 
his kingdom, and foresaw the possibilities of danger 
from this increase, and set about in a human political 
way to take care of it. 

Pharaoh's plan was a very clever, worldly one, the 
only flaw in it was that he left out of his calculations 
God, an error the race does not seem to have outgrown 
by experience. How many politicians today, how 
many socialist leaders, how many rulers of the people 
consider whether their plans are in accord with God's 
plans? The wildest mistake a man or a woman can 
make is to act without first consulting God as to His 
will for them. Alas many, many are doing it to-day, 
and will to the very end until He comes to overthrow 
all the schemes of man as completely as He did Phara- 
oh's of old. 

Job 15:26. 

26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick 
bosses of his bucklers. 

Matt. 21:44. 

44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but 
on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. 



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So Pharaoh's plans were overturned, all his royal 
commands came to naught, because One greater than 
Pharaoh willed it otherwise. So the Kaiser. So every 
ruler who sets himself against God and God's people. 
This is illustrated in the Missionary's reply to the 
monarch who refused him entrance to his country, to 
preach the Gospel, saying, "I will never permit your 
God to enter my land." — Sire, my Master will never ask 
whether He may enter India, or not, He will merely 
come." 

In studying the account of this evil and stubborn 
man, we must always remember that we are to see a 
greater than Pharaoh here. Behind the scenes Satan 
is pulling the wires. Pharaoh has always been the type 
or picture of Satan, — because of 
His oppression of those under him, 
His defiance of the Will of God, 
His subtle temptations to God's children, 
His rebellion against the commands of God, and 
His final overthrow, these all show his character 
and master. 

We will study this more closely when we come to 
Moses' dealings with him. All through the Scriptures 
Satan is represented as the prince of this world, Phara- 
oh prince or king of Egypt. And the judgments which 
fell are the type of those which will again literally fall 
upon a rebellious world under the sway and control of 
the wilful king, Satan's representative, the Anti- 
Christ, the last Pharaoh, the last Kaiser, when in the 
end of the age God again deals in judgment with the 
race and forever emancipates His own people. Rev. 6 — 
20 Chapters inclusive. 

You will notice that the plagues were aimed direct- 
ly at the Egyptian gods, which were deified forms of 
natural life, and that the magicians, Satan's subjects, 
imitated as far as they could, God's miracles. Satan is 
merely an imitator, ever caricaturing the work of God, 



30 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

ever being limited and thwarted by the power of God, 
finally to be forever vanquished and banished by God. 

Ex. 1:15-22. 

15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of 
which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the 
other Puah. 

16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the He- 
brew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then 
ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 

17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of 
Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 

18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said 
unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the 
men children alive? 

19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew 
women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and 
are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. 

20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives : and the people 
multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 

21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, 
that he made them houses. 

22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that 
is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall 
save alive. 

The revolt of the midwives. 

You all know the old adage, — "Wherever there is 
trouble, look for the woman at the bottom of it," and to 
this has been added also, wherever there is good, — and 
here Ave see these women feared God rather than the 
king, and did what was right, trusting the outcome to 
Him Who seeth in secret and rewardeth openly. And 
here in His Word He has recorded the bravery and pi- 
ety of these women by name, that wherever this Word 
is preached there shall also this that these women have 
done be told for a memorial of them. 

The destruction of life, whether before or after birth 
is sin, and these women would have none of it. (I am 
speaking of course of individual murder, not of the 
governmental use of the sword in a just cause). All 
life is a gift of God and is a trust from the moment con- 
ception takes place until God calls it home, and to tam- 
per with it in any way is to commit sin in the sight of 



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God, and brings swift destruction upon one's head. 
Does fear of God prevent infanticide today as it did 
in the days of Pharaoh, I wonder? A physician writing 
of the infanticide by the doctor in Chicago, I think it 
was, who because the child was diseased and imbecile 
destroyed it at birth, said these significant words — "No 
one man is wise enough or good enough to decide when 
a life should be destroyed. " Because of the faithful- 
ness of these women God honored them not only by 
recording their names and deeds, but by "building them 
houses, " or as it should be rendered, "by making them 
heads of houses. " Barrenness was greatly dreaded in 
those days, as children were looked upon as God's 
blessing, and barrenness as God's cursing or disapprov- 
al, so they were rewarded by families of their own. 

Ps. 127:3-5. 

3 Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of 
the womb is His reward. 

4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children 
of the youth. 

5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they 
shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in 
the gate. 

And the very names of these women are significant, 
— Shiphrah, meaning Beauty or Brightness. Puah, 
meaning Joy or Gladness. Of course they were not re- 
warded because of their lie, if, as some one has suggest- 
ed, they ever told it. — Lying is always and ever sin, 
and always and ever unnecessary. God can take care 
of results no matter what the truth may be. The fol- 
lowing is a boy's definition of a lie — "An abomination 
to the Lord — and a very present help in time of troub- 
le." So it seems to human weakness but faith speaks 
truth and leaves the outcome to God. God often for- 
gave lying in His children because of their ignorance 
and weakness, and I am sure there is not a child of 
His today, that if honest, would not have to admit 
that this same sin has been forgiven many times, and 
in us who have no excuse whatever to offer, living as 



32 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

we do in the full light and strength of the presence of 
the Holy Spirit. May He Who hates lies and the fa- 
ther of them teach us to hate them too, and laying aside 
all lying speak every man truth to his neighbor. 

This early attempt at the destruction of the Hebrew 
children was instigated by Satan who has always stood 
behind the murderer who attempts to destroy the chil- 
dren of God. Back of Pharaoh stood Satan. Back of 
the Children of Israel stood God. The counterpart is 
seen later in Bethlehem when Herod sought to destroy 
the Child Jesus. Back of Herod stood Satan. Back 
of the Child stood God. 

So Satan again and again tries to destroy those 
whom God has appointed unto life, heirs of salvation. 
Again and again it seems as if they must be destroyed 
as they fall before the sword, the lion and the axe, and 
yet ever they rise as the Phoenix of ancient myth, 
brighter, stronger, more enduring than before. 

We are all familiar with Bunyan's illustration of this 
truth when he shows Christian a fire burning in spite of 
the water Satan is pouring upon it and when Christian 
queries "how this can be" shows him Christ standing 
behind the fire constantly pouring oil upon it. 

Truth forever on the scaffold, 
Wrong forever on the throne, 
Yet that scaffold sways the future 
And behind the dim unknown 
Standeth God within the shadows 
Keeping watch above His own. 



LESSON II. 

PART I. REDEMPTION BY BLOOD. 
A. THE PEOPLE. 



PART I. REDEMPTION BY BLOOD. 

a. The People. 

The Psalmist's resume of Israel's history. 

Psalm 105. 

1 O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon His name: make 
known his deeds among the people. 

2 Sing unto Him, sing psalms unto Him: talk ye of all His 
wondrous works. 

3 Glory ye in His holy name: let the heart of them rejoice 
that seek the Lord. 

4 Seek the Lord, and His strength : seek His face evermore. 

5 Eemember His marvelous works that He hath done; His 
wonders, and the judgments of His mouth; 

6 O ye seed of Abraham His servant, ye children of Jacob His 
chosen. 

7 He is the Lord our God: His judgments are in all the earth. 

8 He hath remembered His covenant forever, the word which 
He commanded to a thousand generations. 

9 Which covenant He made with Abraham, and His oath unto 
Isaac ; 

10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel 
for an everlasting covenant; 

11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of 
your inheritance: 

12 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, 
and strangers in it. 

13 When they went from one nation to another, from one king- 
dom to another people; 

14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved 
kings for their sakes; 

15 Saying^ Touch not Mine anointed, and do My prophets no 
harm. 

16 Moreover He called for a famine upon the land: He brake 
the whole staff of bread. 

17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for 
a servant: 

18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters : he was laid in iron : 

19 Until the time that His word came: the word of the Lord 
tried him. 

20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, 
and let him go free. 



36 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his sub- 
stance : 

22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators 
wisdom. 

23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the 
land of Ham. 

24 And He increased His people greatly; and made them 
stronger than their enemies. 

25 He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal subtilly 
with His servants. 

26 He sent Moses His servant; and Aaron whom He had chosen. 

27 They shewed His signs among them, and wonders in the 
land of Ham. 

28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not 
against His word. 

29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. 

30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the cham- 
bers of their kings. 

31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in 
all their coasts. 

32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land. 

33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the 
trees of their coasts. 

34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that 
without number, 

35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured 
the fruit of their ground. 

36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all 
their strength. 

37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there 
was not one feeble person among their tribes. 

38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them 
fell upon them. 

39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in 
the night. 

40 The people asked, and He brought quails, and satisfied them 
with the bread of heaven. 

41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran 
in the dry places like a river. 

42 For He remembered His holy promise, and Abraham His 
servant. 

43 And He brought forth His people with joy, and His chosen 
with gladness: 

44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they in- 
herited the labour of the people; 

45 That they might observe His statutes, and keep His laws. 
Praise ye the Lord. 



REDEMPTION BY BLOOD 37 

THE DELIVERER IN MOSES. 

(a). The People. 

Exodus Second to Fifth Chapter. 

Every Sunday School scholar is familiar with the 
story of little Moses in the bulrushes, and personally I 
remember very vividly a ridiculous picture which hung 
on my nursery wall of a very fat little baby, much too 
large for the clothes basket he was in, which lay among 
reeds and rushes and cat-o'-nine-tails, looking out upon 
the world most contentedly, while Pharaoh's daughter, 
a tall, swarthy lady, wrapped in a veil, with scant cloth- 
ing, surveyed the landscape, as she was preparing to 
take her morning dip in the nearby stream. It is a won- 
derfully fascinating story for children, and it loses none 
of its fascination as we read the deeper meaning in it 
in our more mature years. The real picture must 
have been very different from my nursery illustration 
as the baby was hidden in the basket, a lid covering 
it — and wept — thus awakening the princess' curiosity 
and affection. 

There is a delightful irony in the fact that after all 
of Pharaoh's royal commands, after all the clever plans 
laid, yet the person who was to overturn, frustrate 
them all, was brought up in the very court of Pharaoh 
himself, and Pharaoh paid the bill. How marvellously 
God works. How impotent man is when he pits his 
will against the Almighty. 

Psalm 2. 

1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain 
thing? 

2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take 
counsel together, against the Lord, and against His anointed, say- 
ing* 

3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords 

from us. 

4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall 
have them in derision. 



38 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

5 Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and vex them 
in His sore displeasure. 

6 Yet have I set My King upon My holy hill of Zion. 

7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto Me, Thou 
art My Son; this day have I begotten Thee. 

8 Ask of Me, and I shall give Thee the heathen for Thine in- 
heritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy posses- 
sion. 

9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash 
them in pieces like a potter's vessel. 

10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings : be instructed, ye judges 
of the earth. 

11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 

12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way, 
when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that 
put their trust in Him. 

"He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh." God 
must have a good many laughs as He sees ruler after 
ruler, king after king, man after man defying and at- 
tempting to thwart Him. But oh the joy and peace of 
being under His protection. 

Psalm 91. 

1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall 
abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 

2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: 
my God; in Him will I trust. 

3 Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, 
and from the noisome pestilence. 

4 He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings 
shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for 
the arrow that flieth by day; 

6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for 
the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy 
right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 

8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward 
of the wicked. 

9 Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even 
the Most High, thy habitation; 

10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague 
come nigh thy dwelling. 

11 For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee 
in all thy ways. 

12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy 
foot against a stone. 



EEDEMPTION BY BLOOD 39 

13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion 
and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. 

14 Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I de- 
liver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known My 
name. 

15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him : I will be with 
him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. 

16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him My salva- 
tion. 

Psalm 121. 

1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh 
my help. 

2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and 
earth. 

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth 
thee will not slumber. 

4 Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor 
sleep. 

5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy 
right hand. 

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. 

7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: He shall pre- 
serve thy soul. 

8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in 
from this time forth, and even for evermore. 

Is. 54:17. 

17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and 
every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt 
condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and 
their righteousness is of Me, saith the Lord. 

And this the mother of Moses believed. Way and 
above the king's command to drown all the boy babies 
born to the Hebrews, she trusted the God of her fa- 
thers, and had the sublime courage to place her boy 
right in the very waters of death, for this, a river in the 
Scriptures, always stands for. 

She, like Noah before her, prepared an ark for the 
saving of the child. Perhaps God directed her as He 
had Noah, we are not told, but at any rate it was more 
than mere mother love trying to save the life of her 
offspring. It was Divine faith that her God would do 
all His holy will, and if He wished her boy to live He 
would protect and deliver that child from the very jaws 



40 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

of death itself. Would God all mothers knew God as 
well and could as calmly and confidently commit the 
keeping of their children's well being to' Him as to a 
faithful Creator. They have even more cause to do 
this for they can look up and see God in the face of Je- 
sus Christ, who said "Suffer the little children to come 
unto Me." 

And her faith made her act. She didn't fold her hands 
and say, — "if the Lord will he shall live and if not he 
shall die,"— not a bit of it. That is fatalism. First, she 
talked to God about it all, offering her boy to Him, 
dedicating him to His service. Then she used her 
God-given human wits and decided that the safest plan 
was to get the woman in authority interested in the 
child, and as this woman was Pharaoh's daughter, and 
Moses was a beautiful boy, she brought the two to- 
gether, and it all turned out just as she expected, — not, 
mark you, because of her woman's wit, but because 
God was behind her work, guiding both her wits and 
Pharaoh's daughter's. 

First, — Moses' Salvation. 

Let us look more closely at the ark for a moment, for 
it was much more than a wicker clothes basket. Woven 
tightly of the water's rushes, it was daubed, — as we 
read Noah's ark was, — within and without with slime 
and with pitch. And this word "pitch" we saw to be 
the very same word rendered elsewhere in the Scrip- 
tures as "atonement," surely typifying the shed blood 
which secured the sacrifice of Christ against the wa- 
ters of death, for all who will trust themselves to it. 
The perfect life of Christ answers to the structural 
weaving of the ark, or place of safety, but it could save 
none other than itself until it was pitched or sealed by 
the blood, then, and then only, could it save others. 
So Moses becomes a figure of a resurrected or new- 
made man, one who has passed through the waters of 
death and come out to a new life and service. 



REDEMPTION BY BLOOD 41 

It is extremely interesting to note the word "Moses," 
for literally, the word is Mashah — and means to "draw 
out," and this form of the word is used in only two 
other places in the Bible where it signifies a special de- 
liverance by God. Ps. 18:16, — "He drew me out of 
many waters," — literally He, "Moses" me out of 
many waters, and in II Sam. 22:1, — where the same 
word is used, He "Moses," "him out of the hand of all 
his enemies." 

In seeing in Moses a prefigure or type of Christ, we 
notice : 

First, — He was born of an oppressed race. 
So our great Redeemer was born of a woman, made 
under the law. 

Second, — He was kinsman to those he redeemed. 
So our Kinsman shared our sufferings. 

Hebs. 11:14. 

14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they 
seek a country. 

Third, — He was made a prince and heir to the throne 
though born a slave. 

So God has highly exalted Him and given Him a 
name above every name. 

Fourth, — He was rescued from a violent death in 
infancy. 

So our Lord escaped from Herod's decree by God's 
intervention. 

Fifth, — He was tested and trained for forty years 
at the backside of the desert. 

So our Lord lived in retirement in Nazareth and was 
tested forty days in the wilderness of the devil before 
He took up His public ministry. 

Sixth, — Moses' first work was directed against the 

devil gods of Egypt. 

So Christ opposed and overthrew the works of the 
devil. 



42 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Seventh,— Moses was the meekest of men, who when 
he was reviled, reviled not again. 

So of our Lord it was said, — "He was led as a lamb 
to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is 
dumb, so He opened not His mouth. " 

Eighth, — Moses was the founder of Judaism. 
Christ of Christianity. 

Ninth, — Through Moses God gave Israel the Law. 
Through Christ God gave the world the Gospel. 

Tenth, — Moses was the great Prophet of the old dis- 
pensation. 

Christ was the great Prophet of the new dispensa- 
tion. 

Eleventh, — Moses delivered his people from the 
bondage of Egypt. 

Christ delivers His people from the bondage of 
Satan. 

Twelfth, — Moses founded the system of sacrificial 
offerings. 

Christ Himself became that sacrificial offering. 

Thirteenth, — Moses built the Tabernacle. 
Christ built the true Sanctuary. 

Fourteenth, — Moses was the mediator between God 
and Israel. 

Christ is the Mediator between God and man. 

Eph. 2:18. 

18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto 
the Father. 

Moses was but the shadow of Him Who was to 
come, and yet how precious it is to look back upon his 
wonderful life and see what God saw in it, tiny fore- 
gleams of the Perfect Redeemer. Read Hebs. 3 :l-6 for 
this. 

1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, 
consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ 
Jesus; 



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« 

2 Who was faithful to Him that appointed Him, as also Moses 
was faithful in all his house. 

3 For this Man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, 
inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour 
than the house. 

4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built 
all things is God. 

5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, 
for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; 

6 But Christ as a Son over His own house; whose house are 
we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope 
firm unto the end. 

And then see how Moses testified of Christ, and 
Christ testified of Moses. 

ICor. 10:4. 

4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank 
of that spiritual Eock that followed them: and that Eock was 
Christ. 

Luke 9:30-31. 

30 And, behold, there talked with Him two men, which were 
Moses and Elias: 

31 Who appeared in glory, and spake of His decease which He 
should accomplish at Jerusalem. 

Luke 16:29-31. 

29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the proph- 
ets; let them hear them. 

30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto 
them from the dead, they will repent. 

31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the 
prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from 
the dead. 

Second — Moses' Training. 

Next we see how God entrusted the training of His 
proper, or selected or elected child, (for all have the 
same meaning). God chose Moses, and Moses chose 
to answer the choice. His earliest years were given to 
his godly mother that he might be taught true wisdom 
which is the fear of God. You know what the Roman- 
ists say, — Give us a child until it is seven, and it will 
never change its religion. And there is a good deal of 
truth in it. 

A woman once asked her pastor how soon she ought 
to begin to discipline her child. 



44 THE GOfePEL IN EXODUS 

"How old is your child?" he enquired. 

"Three years," was the answer. 

"Well, madam, " said the pastor, "you have lost the 
three most valuable years of your child's life." 

The first seven years are the most important in the 
life of any child, and Moses' mother had him those 
formative years. It was at her knee that he learned 
of the true God. It was from her lips that he learned 
of the Word of God. It was from her that he knew it 
was better to suffer affliction with the people of God 
than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. She it 
was who gave him the plumb line of God's Word by 
which he tested all the learning and culture and science 
of Pharaoh's court, and found it wanting. 

Hebs. 11:23-27. 

23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months 
of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they 
were not afraid of the king's commandment. 

24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be 
called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 

25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, 
than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 

26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the 
treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of 
the reward. 

27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the 
king: for he endured, as seeing Him who is invisible. 

Oh what a lesson for us parents here. If only we 
would, with the coming of each child, hear God's voice 
saying to us, — Take this child and nurse it for Me, 
and I will give thee thy wages. 

Ex. 2:9. 

9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, 
and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the 
woman took the child, and nursed it. 

How differently some of us would act. How earnest- 
ly we would search the Scriptures that we might train 
our children for their God-given life-work. There is a 
wonderful wage waiting for the woman's heart that 
takes a little child in and trains it for the glory of God. 



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It is not necessary to be a natural mother in order to 
have the joy of motherhood. I have known many a 
natural mother to be most unnatural, and many a wom- 
an who has never given birth to a child, mother to all 
little children with whom she came in contact. 

Think of the rewards nurses who have nursed for 
the glory of God are going to receive, and school teach- 
ers and maiden aunts and adopted parents. There is 
no need for any home to be childless or lonely. There 
are plenty of baby hearts to cherish as the days go 
swiftly by. Pharaoh's daughter had this mother in- 
stinct, and God used it for His glory and her joy. The 
cry of a baby linked her to the work of the Almighty. 
Are we as tenderhearted today as the heathen prin- 
cess? There are children like Moses with "no lan- 
guage but a cry" in our midst. What are we doing 
for them? 

This is an orphan world, and Christian women are 
the greatest mothers in the world. 

A missionary in China heard the wail of a baby from 
an ash heap as she was passing by one day and found 
it impossible to leave the little one to her fate. So she 
picked it up, carried it to the mission station and 
trained and taught it there for many years. Today that 
ash heap scrap is a teacher of the Gospel in her native 
land and a bright and shining light for Christ who 
saved her. 

One of the most famous and most beautiful stained 
glass windows of Europe is said to have been made by 
an apprentice of the fragments thrown aside by the 
master workman. 

So God delights to take up what seems waste and 
useless lives and build them into that Temple which is 
to be the wonder of men and angels through all eter- 
nity. 

If fate hath given thee no child 
To lean upon thine arm, 
That by its presence undefiled 
Shouldst save thy soul from harm; 



46 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

If thou wert truly mother born, 
Thou wouldst have played the part, 
And found some little one forlorn 
To fold within thine heart. 

Never in the history of the world has there been such 
an opportunity to play Mother by proxy as to-day 
when the cry of the orphan children rises to us from 
Belgium, France, Armenia, Poland, Serbia, etc. 

I tell you, the child that has the Word of God indeli- 
bly stamped on brain and heart in childhood has an 
amulet powerful enough to counteract all the charms of 
Pharaoh's licentious court. Ruskin says the best in- 
heritance his mother gave him was the memorizing of 
the Scriptures. 

It is most surprising and illuminating too to see how 
little stress God lays upon human education merely, 
and how deeply He stresses and insists upon the spir- 
itual education for any servant of His whom He 
deigns to use. Seven years with his mother, thirty- 
three in Pharaoh's court, the first forty years of his 
life ; and then forty more at the backside of the desert, 
eighty years training for the man of God before he was 
permitted to work or speak for God. 

God is never in a hurry, efficiency in His sight is of 
far greater importance than expeditiousness. Haste is 
something unknown to God. In patience possess thy 
soul. Let patience have her perfect work. In due 
time God acts. Man is a creature of impatience and 
rushes in where angels fear to tread. And this is just 
what Moses did in his human impatience. He attempt- 
ed to set the wrongs of his people right by doing a 
wrong himself. Like every impatient human creature 
he refused to wait God's time and guidance, and so 
postponed the blessing God had in store for Israel 
forty years. 

Seeing the terrible oppression of his poor enslaved 
brethren his heart burned within him in holy wrath, 
and in an impulse to punish the wrong doer and liber- 



KEDEMPTTON BY BLOOD 47 

ate the captive he slew the man, and spent forty years 
in exile for it. Just as Sarah took things into her own 
hands and brought Ishmael into the world ; and Jacob 
stole the birthright, and you and I get tired waiting for 
God to act and undertake to right the wrongs of the 
world ourselves, so Moses failed to wait God's time, 
and had to bear the consequences. 

Not the culture of Pharaoh's court, but the com- 
panionship of God in that lonely wilderness taught 
Moses the lesson he needed to learn. Not to do but to 
obey is what God requires. The man or the woman 
who is always wanting to do for God generally does 
too much and has to undo a lot before he learns his 
lesson. God wants worshippers, not workers. He is 
over-run with workers, but very scant on worshippers. 
Don't mistake, a worshipper will not long remain idle, 
but when he is put to work it will be work that is worth 
while, for it will be work planned by God, executed 
by God and blessed by God, all else is failure. 

And only those who have lived much alone with God 
are fitted for His work. Jesus Himself spent ten times 
as much time alone with God as He did in His public 
ministry, and if He, the Divine Son, needed this Com- 
panionship with God, how much more do we poor weak 
mortals need it. If there is one thing the Scriptures 
emphasize it is this, — that not human culture, nor hu- 
man education, nor human ideas, nor human desires, 
nor human skill, fit a man to do God's work, but only 
that special spiritual training which comes alone from 
an intimate knowledge of God's Word, and God's 
plans. 

I had a visitor in my house at one time, a very plain 
man who had been a notorious thief, but since his con- 
version at the Water Street Mission, a most spiritual 
and successful teacher of the Gospel. 

At the time of his conversion he could neither read 
nor write, and at forty years of age commenced his 
education, so he could read and study his Bible for him- 
self. 



48 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Upon his leaving my home I offered him a little book 
marked with his name, thinking he would enjoy it and 
perhaps find it helpful in his work. 

He took the book, looked at it for a moment, and 
then handed it back to me, saying in the most simple 
and courteous way imaginable, "I know you won't 
misunderstand me when I say that I never read any 
book but the Bible, and so must decline your very 
kind gift." 

"You see," he said, "I am a man of no education, not 
intelligent enough to discover whether human writers 
are agreeing with God's teaching or not; so I confine 
myself entirely to the Word of God, and then I am sure 
of all I learn." 

Unconsciously he had revealed to me the secret of 
his deep. spiritual life. He fed on the Word of God and 
was intimate with the Father and the Father's will. 

Oh that more of us made it our business to know 
God through His Word in place of trying to know the 
world and the things of the world through the opinions 
of worldly men. 

The Psalmist says, — Ps. 32 :8 — 

8 I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou 
shalt go : I will guide thee with Mine eye. 

"I will guide thee with mine eye," but the inference 
is that one is intimate enough with God to see His eye. 
And in Is. 30:21,— 

21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This 
is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and 
when ye turn to the left. 

where again one must be listening to God in order to 
catch the orders. 

Human culture and human education tend to exalt 
and puff up human nature. Take Germany as an ex- 
ample to-day. Culture without the God of the Scrip- 
tures spells devilish Kultur. And an educated criminal 
is twice as dangerous as an ignorant one. Of course 



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we are not decrying education, we are merely show- 
ing that education per se will never teach a man how 
his ways may please God. Man is a sinner, and with- 
out a new birth whereby heart, mind, eye, ear, hand 
and foot are all made new and trained by God Himself, 
can never do anything which a Holy God can accept. 

I heard a famous speaker tell this story not long ago. 

She said she had been talking with a prominent man 
of the New Theology, who sneered at the idea of men 
needing any atonement. She faced him with the ques- 
tion : 

"Do you think the world a perfectly clean place in 
which to live?" 

"No," he replied, "I can't say that I do — considering 
all that is going on in it." 

"Well, then," said she, "you admit the world needs 
cleansing?" 

"Now I ask you what are you going to cleanse it 
with?" 

"If you say education, I reply if education could 
cleanse the race, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, every uni- 
versity, college or high school would be a perfectly 
clean place — a little heaven — and I ask you frankly if 
such is the case?" 

He had to be honest and answer "No." 

So far from it some of you will recall that a prom- 
inent woman not long ago said she would as leave 
send her son to hell as to — Well, a certain college. I 
rather suspect any name will do to fill in with. 

Then if education will not cleanse the race, my friend 
asked again, "What have you to offer? Will money?" 

"If so, all the wealthy people would be righteous, 
and I ask you if they are?" 

Again he had to answer "No." 

And so on through all you can think of or suggest. 
You can find nothing but the blood of Jesus which 
can or will cleanse a soiled soul. 



50 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

My friend turned again and said : "God offers you a 
fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuers 
veins ; and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all 
their guilty stains." 

Of course God expects us to be educated, and uses 
that education for His own purposes. The training in 
Pharaoh's court stood Moses in good stead when he 
came to deal with Pharaoh as God's messenger, but it 
never made him the messenger of God. 

Moody, Gipsy Smith, Billy Sunday, some of the 
world's greatest evangelists have not been the most 
highly educated men. While Voltaire, Renan, Strauss, 
Ingersoll, Dr. Eliot and others have had intellect, but 
without God have frightfully misused it. 

Take the German Kultur and what has it brought 
the world? Germany ranks high in education but 
mighty low in morals. One cat power well used is 
more efficient than forty horse power misused. Use 
what you have for God and see it grow. 

There is one point about Moses' sin to which I would 
like to call your attention. When he was about to slay 
the Egyptian, the record says "he looked this way 
and that way, and when he saw there was no man — 
he slew." Did he not forget God? Thou God seest 
me. For nothing is secret that shall not be made man- 
ifest. 

Luke 8:17. 

17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest: 
neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. 

There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed. 

Matt. 10:26. 

26 Fear them not therefore : for there is nothing covered, that 
shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. 

Oh how much our prayer ought to be daily, — 
"Cleanse Thou me from secret faults." When a man 
has to look this way and that to see that no one is 
looking, he may be perfectly sure his deed is evil. Satan 



EEDEMPTION BY BLOOD 51 

it is who draws the curtains of darkness around the 
deeds that dare not see the light of day. But God it 
is who drags us out into the light of His truth and pur- 
ity, and causes us to repent of all our evil deeds, and 
when we confess our sins He is faithful and just to for- 
give us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteous- 
ness. The deed was punished, the man was instructed. 
The desert did what Pharaoh's court failed to do. It 
taught Moses what every child of God sooner or later 
must learn. — "My soul, wait thou only upon God." 

Ps. 62:5. 

5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is 
from Him. 

Is. 40:31. 

31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength ; 
they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and 
not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. 

Hab. 2:3. 

3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end 
it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it: because 
it will surely come, it will not tarry. 

Third — Moses' Call and Commission. 

Like Joseph, Moses received his bride while absent 
from his own people, and this is also a type of the Bride 
the Father hath bestowed upon the Son, while He too 
is absent from His people. In Joseph we saw the Gen- 
tile bride with him in his exaltation. In Moses we see 
her in his humiliation, and she is won by the well, and 
won because he stooped to serve. It is interesting to 
see how brides in the Scripture are won by the side of 
a well. In the New Testament by the well of Salva- 
tion, the Samaritan woman was won by our Lord Who 
came not to be ministered unto, but to minister ; a fore- 
runner of His Church; and some day this Bride, His 
Church, won in lowliness, and united to Him in His 
humiliation, will share also in His exaltation, and when 
the brethren recognize Him Whom they slew, she will 
be reigning with Him in glory and great power. 



52 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

We pass over the silence of the forty years' instruc- 
tion in the wilderness. We have its counterpart in 
Paul's silent years in Arabia, and our Lord's in Naza- 
reth. When patience had done her perfect work, then 
God moved and gave a test, to see if His servant was 
ready to move with Him. 

God never would send you the darkness 

If He felt you could stand the light; 

But you would not cling to His guiding hand 

If the way were always bright; 

And you would not care to walk by faith 

Could you always walk by sight. 

'Tis true He has many an anguish 

For your sorrowful heart to bear, 

And many a cruel thorn-crown 

For your tired head to wear; 

He knows how few would reach heaven at all 

If pain did not guide them there. 

So He sends you the blinding darkness 
And the furnace of sevenfold heat; 
'Tis the only way, believe me, 
To keep you close to His feet; 
For 'tis always so easy to wander 
When our lives are glad and sweet. 

Then nestle your hand in your Father's 
And sing; if you can, as you go; 
Your song may cheer someone behind you 
Whose courage is sinking low; 
And, well, if your lips do quiver — 
God will love you better so. 

The burning bush is almost as familiar to us in con- 
nection with Moses as his ark of bulrushes, and yet 
here again perhaps we never see the inner meaning. 
Our God is a consuming fire. So it was natural for 
Him to so appear to His servant. But the bush was not 
consumed, brighter and brighter it glowed with a su- 
per-natural light. It was the Shekinah Glory. The fire 
of God's holiness only consumes the dross of the world. 
For His own His fire cleanses, purifies, brightens. The 



REDEMPTION BY BLOOD 53 

bush glowed but was only beautified, only purified by 
the fire. ' J 

"When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie, 
My grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply; 
The flame shall not hurt thee : I only design 
Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine." 

That this miracle just as recorded is the very Word 
of God, and has the inner meaning of the work of God 
on a human soul, is testified to by Christ Himself. It 
proved to Moses the resurrection power of God. 
Mark 12:26. 

26 And as touching the dead, that they rise : have ye not read 
in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, say- 
ing, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the 
God of Jacob? 

The fire of His wrath against sin consumes sin, but 
transforms and recreates the soul for whom Christ 
died. He and he alone receives an indestructible life 
which the holiness of God only transforms and trans- 
figures. 

I am glad Moses stopped to look at this miracle. So 
many men would have passed on, pre-occupied, self- 
absorbed, unmoved. God stands beside us so often in 
luminous presence and we are too dull to see His Pres- 
ence. 

Laura E. Richards has embodied this thought in the 
following parable of the Golden Windows. 

All day long the little boy worked hard, in field and 
barn and shed, for his people were poor farmers, and 
could not pay a workman ; but at sunset there came an 
hour that was all his own, for his father had given it to 
him. Then the boy would go up to the top of a hill 
and look across at another hill that rose some miles 
away. On this far hill stood a house with windows of 
clear gold and diamonds. They shone and blazed so 
that it made the boy wink to look at them ; but after a 
while the people in the house put up shutters, as it 
seemed, and then it looked like any common farm- 



54 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

house. The boy supposed they did this because it was 
supper-time ; and then he would go into the house and 
have his supper of bread and milk, and go to bed. 

One day the boy's father called him and said : "You 
have been a good boy, and have earned a holiday. Take 
this day for your own ; but remember that God gave 
it, and try to learn some good things. " 

The boy thanked his father and kissed his mother; 
i:hen he put a piece of bread in his pocket, and started 
off to find the house with the golden windows. 

It was pleasant walking. His bare feet made marks 
in the white dust, and when he looked back, the foot- 
prints seemed to be following him, and making compa- 
ny for him. His shadow, too, kept beside him, and 
would dance or run with him as he pleased ; so it was 
very cheerful. 

By and by he felt hungry; and he sat down by a 
brown brook that ran through the alder hedge by the 
roadside, and ate his bread, and drank the clear water. 
Then he scattered the crumbs for the birds, as his 
mother had taught him to do, and went on his way. 

After a long time he came to a high green hill ; and 
when he had climbed the hill, there was the house on 
the top ; but it seemed that the shutters were up, for 
he could not see the golden windows. He came up to 
the house, and then he could well have wept, for the 
windows were of clear glass, like any others, and there 
was no gold anywhere about them. 

A woman came to the door, and looked kindly at the 
boy, and asked him what he wanted. 

"I saw the golden windows from our hilltop, " he 
said, "and I came to see them, but now they are only 
glass." 

The woman shook her head and laughed. 

"We are poor farming people," she said, "and are 
not likely to have gold about our windows ; but glass 
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She bade the boy sit down on the broad stone step 
at the door, and brought him a cup of milk and a cake, 
and bade him rest; then she called her daughter, a 
child of his own age, and nodded kindly at the two, and 
went back to her work. 

The little girl was barefooted like himself, and wore 
a brown cotton gown, but her hair was golden like the 
windows he had seen, and her eyes were blue like the 
sky at noon. She led the boy about the farm, and 
showed him her black calf with the white star on its 
forehead, and he told her about his own at home, which 
was red like a chestnut, with four white feet. Then 
when they had eaten an apple together, and so had be- 
come friends, the boy asked her about the golden win- 
dows. The little girl nodded, and said she knew all 
about them, only he had mistaken the house. 

"You have come quite the wrong way !" she said. 
"Come with me, and I will show you the house with 
the golden windows, and then you will see for your- 
self." 

Then went to a knoll that rose behind the farmhouse, 
and as they went the little girl told him that the golden 
windows could only be seen at a certain hour, about 
sunset. 

"Yes, I know that !" said the boy. 

When they reached the top of the knoll, the girl 
turned and pointed ; and there on a hill far away stood 
a house with windows of clear gold and diamond, just 
as he had seen them. And when they looked again, the 
boy saw that it was his own home. 

Then he told the little girl that he must go ; and he 
gave her his best pebble, the white one with the red 
band, that he had carried for a year in his pocket ; and 
she gave him three horse-chestnuts, one red like satin, 
one spotted, and one white like milk. He kissed her, 
and promised to come again, but he did not tell her 
what he had learned; and so he went back down the 
hill, and the little girl stood in the sunset light and 
watched him. 



56 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

The way home was long, and it was dark before the 
boy reached his father's house ; but the lamplight and 
firelight shone through the windows, making them al- 
most as bright as he had seen them from the hilltop ; 
and when he opened the door, his mother came to kiss 
him, and his little sister ran to throw her arms about 
his neck, and his father looked up and smiled from 
his seat by the fire. 

"Have you had a good day?" asked his mother. 

Yes, the boy had a very good day. 

"And have you learned anything?" asked his father. 

"Yes !" said the hoy. "I have learned that our house 
has windows of gold and diamond." 

So in our humdrum lives God sheds the rays of shin- 
ing presence, gilding all we do with divine glory, but 
we are too dull to see, too sure others have what we 
long for, and all the time He is waiting oh, so patient- 
ly to open our eyes to His nearness and His transfigur- 
ing power. 

Open my eyes, that I may see, 
Glimpses of truth Thou hast for me; 
Place in my hands the wonderful key 
That shall unclasp, and set me free. 

Silently now I wait for Thee, 
Eeady, my God, Thy will to see; 
Open my eyes, illumine me, 
Spirit divine! 

And then I am glad the call came to Moses as he 
was about his daily task, shepherding his few sheep. 
It is ever so, God never calls a man who is out of his 
path of duty. 

David from the sheep cote. 

Elisha from the plow. 

Gideon from the threshing floor. 

The disciples from the nets. 

Mary and Martha from the household tasks. 

And He called his name. How strengthening this 
is. He calleth His own sheep by name, and they 



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follow Him. Oh the joy, peace and strength of know- 
ing our God-given, God-inspired, God-taught task. Let 
us never be side-tracked from it by the clamor of the 
voices of the world. 

Is. 43:10. 

10 Ye are My witnesses, saith the Lord, and My servant whom 
I have chosen: that ye may know and believe Me, and under- 
stand that I am He : before Me there was no God formed, neither 
shall there be after Me. 

John 15:16. 

16 Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained 
you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit 
should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in 
My name, He may give it you. 

So we notice ; First, — God had heard the groaning of 
His children. 

Ex. 3:7. 

7 And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of My 
people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason 
of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows: 

Second, — He had planned to save. 

Ex. 3:8. 

8 And I came down to deliver them out of the hand of the 
Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good 
land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto 
the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, 
and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 

Third, — He had chosen and prepared the instru- 
ment by which they were to be saved. 

Ex. 3:10. 

10 Come now, therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, 
that thou mayest bring forth My people, the children of Israel, 
out of Egypt. 

Fourth, — He had revealed His plan to their deliverer. 

Ex. 3:14. 

14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and He said, 
Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent 
me unto you. 



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Fifth, — He gave the command. 
Ex. 3:15. 

15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say 
unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the 
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath 
sent me unto you: this is My name for ever, and this is My 
memorial unto all generations. 

And next we see the title by which God revealed 
Himself to Moses. It was all embracing and reached 
forward to the Coming of Christ. I am the same yes- 
terday, today, forever. Before the mountains were 
brought forth or ever Thou hadst formed the earth 
and the world even from everlasting to everlast- 
ing, Thou art God. And so Christ says to us He is 
the great I am. The One Who was in the burning bush 
and Who commissioned Moses for his great redemp- 
tive work. 

In Christ we find all we need. My God shall supply 
all your needs through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
He says : 

I am the Bread of Life. 

I am the Water of Life. 

I am the Good Shepherd. 

I am the True Vine. 

I am the Bright and Morning Star. 

I am the Only Saviour. 

The Way, the Truth, the Life. 
All the riches of grace and glory are in Him, and 
He it was Who was to lead Moses. 

Strange that with this rich promise Moses yet 
feared and refused to be the mouthpiece of God. But 
don't we? How many times God would have spoken 
to some poor slave of sin, but we feared to open our 
lips and allow God to fill them with His messages. Just 
like Moses. God does not need or want eloquence, 
He has all of that He needs Himself. He wants lips 
consecrated to His service, tuned to sing His praise, 
filled with messages from Him. Oh the conceit of any 



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human heart which says, — I am quite capable of carry- 
ing on God's work alone, and if not capable, then the 
work is all of God and excludes boasting. 

Men may preach, write sermons, books, utter lec- 
tures and prayers and never once do the work of God. 
The only one who is capable of presenting Christ is 
the one who lives constantly with Christ, and his work 
then is not his own but entirely in the power of the 
Spirit. 

John 15:4,5. 

4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit 
of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except 
ye abide in Me. 

5 I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, 
and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without 
Me ye can do nothing. 

The Signs. 

But God is so gentle and patient with us and He 
gives us encouragement and comfort by the way. Two 
signs were given Moses. The sign of the serpent and 
the sign of the leprosy. His credentials were given 
him by God and would be accepted by the people. 
What is that in thy hand? 

God delights to use little things and simple things 
for His great purposes. God takes up the weakest in- 
struments to accomplish His mightiest ends. "A rod," 
"a ram's horn," "a cake of barley meal," "an earthen 
pitcher," "a shepherd's sling," "five loaves and two lit- 
tle fishes," anything, in short, when used of God, will 
do the appointed work. Men imagine that splendid 
ends can only be reached by splendid means ; but such 
is not God's way. He can use a crawling worm as 
well as a scorching sun, a gourd as well as a vehement 
east wind, as proved in Jonah. 

Moses held a shepherd's crook in his hand, the sign 
of his profession, just a crooked stick. Well that is 
enough in the hand of God. God will use just what you 
have in your hand already if you will yield it to Him — 






60 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

and what we are holding, stamps us — tells the story of 
what we are and what we do. 

The medicine chest in the hand of the physician. 

The tool box in the hand of the workman. 

The pen in the hand of the author. 

The rolling pin in the hand of the housewife. 

The crook in the hand of the shepherd. 

All tell the story. 

What is that in thine hand? Cast it down. Take it 
up at the command of God and see how marvelously 
He will use you. Obey, Moses. Cast it down, and 
lo a serpent writhes along the ground, terrifying even 
Moses ; but again comes the command, "grasp it fear- 
lessly by the tail," and again the servant obeys, and 
lo a harmless stick once more. 

A sign, yes, much more of a sign than Moses knew. 
The serpent, type of writhing, loathsome sin taken in 
hand by God is powerless and impotent as a dead stick. 
So Christ has seized the serpent of sin, and will hurl 
it into the lake of fire some day from which it can nev- 
er writhe again, to sting the human race. 

And the second sign was like unto the first. The 
hand thrust into the human bosom came forth sin- 
stained and leprous ; but thrust back again at God's 
command was restored whole like the other. So man 
took sin into his own bosom and became leprous, but 
Christ coming in the form of sin and for sin restored 
him. Christ took into His spotless bosom the lep- 
rousy of the world, and now all who will may be drawn 
to that bosom, will be given life from the dead. 

So we see briefly in simplest outline, the preserva- 
tion of the child of God's choosing, the preparation of 
Moses for his work as their deliverer, the passports 
for his commission given, and the acceptance finally 
by the man of his task. 

It was all of grace. Moses does not show up any too 
well in any part of the record. First, he failed through 
impatience, and then he failed through timidity, but 



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God of His grace worked through this feeble instru- 
ment that the glory might all be His own, that no 
flesh should glory in His presence, and when the work 
was done not by might, nor by power, nor by Moses, 
but by the Spirit of God, then the record of the work 
was written in letters of gold in the Hero Chapter. 
Hebrews 11. And the blots on the escutcheon were 
all wiped out. 

So will it be some day with every child of God. 

A little boy was anxiously watching his father turn 
the leaves of his copybook because he knew of a page 
badly blotted through a fit of temper and he dreaded 
his father's grief when he should see the blots and ask 
the reason. Page after page of neatly formed letters 
was turned and the father smiled his approval at the 
anxious little face, which grew more and more wistful 
as the end of the book drew near. At last the end was 
reached, the last page turned and there was no blot 
upon any page of the copy book. The teacher knowing 
of the real sorrow of the little boy for his fit of temper, 
had removed the page before sending the book home 
for inspection. 

So Christ takes away the blots from our characters 
and Satan can find no proof of them for they are re- 
moved as far as the east is from the west. 



LESSON III. 

PART I. REDEMPTION BY BLOOD. 
B. THE PLAGUES. 



THE OPPOSITION OF PHARAOH. 

God's Judgments followed by God's Mercies 

(b) The Plagues. 

The difference between God's people and 
the rebellious people. 

Exodus from fifth to eleventh chapters. 

In dealing with this part of God's account of the 
redemption of His people from the hand of the op- 
pressor we must always bear in mind whom Pharaoh 
stood for or represented, — The opponent of God, — And 
who is this but Satan? Satan it is who is behind all 
rebellion against God, all defiance of God, all opposi- 
tion to God, His Word, His work and His will ; there- 
fore the judgments which fell are a foregleam of those 
which will finally fall on the devil and all his works 
as foretold in Rev. 14 — 22 chapters, inclusive. 

It is told of two rabbis who observed a fox running 
upon Mt. Zion, that Rabbi Joshua wept, but Rabbi 
Eliezer laughed. "Wherefore dost thou laugh?" said 
he who wept. "Nay, wherefore dost thou weep?" 
asked Eliezer. "I weep", was the answer, "because I 
see what is written in the Lamentations fulfilled ; be- 
cause of Mt. Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk up- 
on it." "And therefore," said Rabbi Eliezer, "I laugh ; 
for when I see with mine own eyes that God has ful- 
filled His threatening to the very letter, I have thereby 
a pledge that not one of His promises shall fail, for He 
is more ready to show mercy than judgment." 

As one writer says : "Not only will there be plagues 
on their enemies, but Israel will be brought out of the 
nations through a miraculously provided pathway as 
when the Red Sea was divided." 



66 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Is. 11:15-16. 

15 And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the 
Egyptian sea; and with His mighty wind shall He shake His hand 
over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make 
men go over dryshod. 

16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of His peo- 
ple, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in 
the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. 

They will be brought into a wilderness. 

Ez. 20:34-36. 

34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather 
you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty 
hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. 

35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and 
there will I plead with you face to face. 

36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the 
land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God. 

The pillar of cloud and fire will be seen once more. 

Is. 4:5,6. 

5 And the Lord will create upon every dwellingplace of 
mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, 
and the shining of a naming fire by night : for upon all the glory 
shall be a defence. 

6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime 
from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from 
storm and from rain. 

And they will again sing the song of Moses. 

Ps. 118:14. 

14 The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my sal- 
vation. 

Is. 12:1,2. 

And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise Thee: 
though Thou wast angry with me, Thine anger is turned away, 
and Thou comfortedest me. 

2 Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid : 
for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; He also 
is become my salvation. 

Rev. 15:2,3. 

2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and 
them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his 
image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, 
stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. 



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3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and 
the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are Thy 
works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, Thou 
King of saints. 

Moses was sent to Egypt's proud king with a mod- 
est request that the Hebrews be allowed to take a 
three-day journey into the wilderness to worship their 
God according to His command, and the haughty 
Pharaoh, fearing to lose three days' work, and angry 
that their God should require something of them with- 
out first consulting him, not only refuses, but to his 
refusal adds abuse and oppression. 

Ex. 5:5-9. 

5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are 
many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. 

6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of 
the people, and their officers, saying, 

7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as 
heretofore : let them go and gather straw for themselves. 

8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, 
ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: 
for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sac- 
rifice to our God. 

9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may 
labour therein: and let them not regard vain words. 

It reminds us of Rehoboam later, — 

I Kings 12:11. 

11 And now, whereas my father did lade you with a heavy 
yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you 
with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 

And is exactly the way every tyrant under the domi- 
nation of Satan talks and acts. Take Nero, Leopold, the 
Kaiser and others, for example. 

A great many people like to pick on the words, — 
"And the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart. " And quib- 
ble over the hardening process as if they liked to blame 
God for Pharaoh's sin. True children of God never 
talk this way, but many calling themselves Christians 
do. So let us look at it a little more closely. 

It is perfectly true that God hardens men's hearts 



68 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

again and again when they refuse to allow Him to 
make them new and tender, and as we all perfectly 
well know, the very same dealing from God works in 
two different ways upon different hearts. Who of us 
have not known parents who have been made bitter 
by the loss of a child, while others sustaining the very 
same loss have given forth a fragrance which has won 
many others to love and trust Him too. 

There is a story about the gravel-walk and the mi- 
gnonette : "How fragrant you are this morning, ,, said 
the gravel-walk. "Yes," said the mignonette, "I have 
been trodden upon and bruised, and it has brought 
forth all my sweetness." "But," said the gravel-walk, 
"I am trodden on every day, and I only grow harder." 

A father and mother were suddenly bereft of their 
three beautiful children by an epidemic of scarlet fever. 
Before their tragedy they had been nominal Christians, 
attending church when they felt like it, and reading 
their Bible spasmodically praying from time to time. 

Their grief made them bitter and rebellious and 
they gave up their church connections, sold their home, 
and started to travel in order to try to keep their minds 
from their memories and their hearts from breaking. 
Country after country was visited but all to no effect, 
the ache was there, memory haunted them, their bur- 
den grew heavier in place of lighter, and it seemed as 
though there was no rest anywhere for the weary foot 
and the aching heart, until they found themselves in 
Palestine, where one evening towards sunset they were 
sitting on a bank overlooking a stream, idly watching 
a shepherd bringing his flock home over the neighbor- 
ing hills. 

While they watched the shepherd reached the 
stream, which was gurgling in a noisy manner, over 
the rocks at their feet, and lay directly in the path 
leading to the fold. 

The whole flock halted at the noisy water and re- 
fused to cross, drawing back, crowding one another, 
and bleating in protest. 



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All efforts to drive them proved vain, even when the 
shepherd walked in and called them to follow, still 
they hung back, fearful, timid and rebellious. 

The man and the woman became greatly interested, 
wondering what the outcome would be, when to their 
astonishment the shepherd left his position in the wa- 
ter and walked directly into the flock of bleating sheep, 
picked up four of the smallest lambs and with two in 
his long cloak and one under each arm, he walked back 
into the stream and reached the other side. Instantly 
the mothers of these ewes dashed into the stream brav- 
ing the fearful water for love's sake, and seeing them 
gain the other side in safety the whole flock followed 
suit and were soon safe home for the night. 

The man and woman looked at one another and un- 
derstood. The natural illustration enacted by God un- 
der their very eyes taught them exactly what God 
wants to teach us each one, — the good shepherd knows 
what He is about and must often take the little ones 
over the dark waters first in order to draw us after. 

In the case of Judas, he had the same opportunity for 
conversion that the other disciples had, and yet his 
heart was made callous by that which broke theirs. In 
both the case of Judas and Pharaoh it seems to me that 
what we should be impressed with is the patience of 
God, the long suffering of God, not willing that any 
should perish. 

2 Pet. 3:9. 

9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men 
count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing 
that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

Pharaoh had ten chances of repentance given him. 
Ten stripes, any one of which should have made him 
cry to God with a plea for forgiveness. In the original 
Hebrew Campbell Morgan tells us the word rendered 
"hardened" every place in our King James' transla- 
tion was originally two distinct and separate words, 
and in the first five places meant "made strong," while 



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in the last verses only it means "stubborn," or "hard- 
ened." 

The stubbornness did not become a fixture until af- 
ter the first two cycles of plagues had fallen upon him, 
and by constant rejection of the Word of God and the 
Judgments of God he became habitually hardened, and 
God gave him over to his reprobate mind. 

God's Demands and Pharaoh's Replies. 

A careful study of God's demands and Pharaoh's re- 
plies will throw much light on the problem of God's 
dealings with Pharaoh. 

(1) v. 1— "Thus saith the Lord." 
V. 2— "Who is the Lord?" 

(2) V. 1 — "Let My people go . . . wilderness." 
VIII. 25— "Go, sacrifice in the land." 

(3) VIII. 27— "Three days' journey into the desert." 
VIII. 28— "Go, only not far away." 

(4) X. 3— "Let My people go." 

X. 8— "Who are they that shall go?" 

(5) X. 9— "All must go." 

X. 11 — "Let men go, but not children or flocks." 
Verse 24 — "Go, men and children, but not flocks." 

(6) X. 25, 26— "Flocks too must go." 
XII. 31-33 — Go, as ye have said." 

Clay poured into a certain mould and left long 
enough hardens into that form permanently; and it is 
thus that God's law of habit works out in a rebellious 
heart. Only too true are the words : 

Sow a thought, reap an act, 

Sow an act, reap a habit, 

Sow a habit, reap a destiny. 

Habit is a Cable; 

We spin a thread of it every day 

Till at last we cannot break it. 

Every man has his probation, his test, his chance, 
he himself decides the attitude God must then take to- 



KEDEMPTION BY BLOOD 71 

wards him, and there is abundant proof in Scripture 
that there comes a moment when turning to God, too 
often rejected, becomes an impossibility. The lesson 
is that God calls us by His mercies, and also by His 
judgments. That in patience, in infinite, divine, com- 
passionate patience He waits and calls, but there 
comes a moment when His waiting ceases, He calls no 
more, and when that hour strikes the man has fixed his 
destiny irrevocably, and God has hardened his heart 
nevermore to touch it. "Today if ye will hear His 
voice, harden not your heart." "A new heart also will 
I give you, and I will take away the stony heart out of 
their flesh and I will give them a heart of flesh." "Turn 
ye, turn ye, for why will ye die?" 

Now let us look at the plagues by which God did five 
things : 

1st. — That the Egyptians might know Jehovah. 

Ex. 7:5. 

5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I 
stretch forth Mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children 
of Israel from among them. 

2nd. — Judgment upon the gods of Egypt. 

Ex. 12:12. 

12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and 
will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and 
beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judg- 
ment: I am the Lord. 

3rd. — To honor Israel. 

Ex. 8:22,23. 

22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which 
My people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the 
end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the 
earth. 

23 And I will put a division between My people and thy peo- 
ple : to morrow shall this sign be. 

4th. — To reveal the holiness, justice and power of 
God. 



72 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Ex. 7:3,5,9; 9:15,16,27. 

3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs 
and My wonders in the land of Egypt. 

5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I 
stretch forth Mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children 
of Israel from among them. 

9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle 
for you : then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast 
it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent. 

15 For now I will stretch out My hand, that I may smite thee 
and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from 
the earth. 

16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for 
to shew in thee My power; and that My name may be declared 
throughout all the earth. 

27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and 
said unto them, I have sinned this time : the Lord is righteous, 
and I and my people are wicked. 

5th. — A testimony to future generations. 

Ex. 10:1,2. 

And the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh : for I have 
hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might 
shew these My signs before him: 

2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy 
son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and My signs 
which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I 
am the Lord. 

Perhaps we should notice here how much more the 
people suffered when they attempted to leave all and 
follow Jehovah. Just as they had made up their minds 
to obey God and follow Moses and worship as God 
commanded, their trials grew r greater, their sufferings 
increased, their burdens grew heavier. It is nearly al- 
ways so in the Christian experience. The closer one 
tries to walk with God the harder Satan makes it for 
him. Temptations increase in intensity as Satan sees 
a soul being led out from bondage to him to the life of 
liberty in Christ Jesus, and not only does he say "I will 
not let you go," but he makes every day's experience 
harder, and makes it look as if the very effort to serve 
God had brought about the trouble. 



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As sure as ever God puts His children in the fur- 
nace He will be in the furnace with them. 

As He was with — 

Joseph in the pit and dungeon — 

The three men in the fiery furnace — 

Daniel in the lion's den — 

Paul and Silas in prison. 

The following was told me by the man to whom it 
happened. I need not give his name. Suffice it to 
say he was a prominent, popular and successful fish 
merchant in a near-by large town. 

His success was largely due to the big liquor busi- 
ness he conducted — on the quiet. 

His building was rented from liquor people. He 
catered to all the leading hotels and clubs, selling their 
wares to many a private customer surreptitiously the 
bottles being placed under the fish and cress in the 
basket used for delivery. 

His conversion makes a story by itself, but for the 
present it is enough to say that he was soundly con- 
verted by Billy Sunday, and his conversion showed in a 
change of business methods. He refused to handle the 
hotels' liquor any longer; refused to send smuggled 
bottles in his fish baskets, and it was not very long be- 
fore he had the entire liquor gang down on him, deter- 
mined to ruin him and his business ; and they did. 

First, the man from whom he rented his building re- 
fused to renew the lease. Next the hotels and clubs 
withdrew their trade. Next all his private customers 
who had secured their liquor from him, fell away, and 
creditors pressed on every side at one and the same 
time for payments which his failing business made it 
impossible for him to meet. 

He mortgaged his house, gathered all the ready 
money he could from the sale of his furniture and 
finally left town to try and gain a living in some way 
pleasing to God, and when he told me this story he 



74 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

had been enabled by God's help to pay up all his debts 
but about five hundred dollars which he expected to 
clear off before last Christmas, and I don't doubt at all 
but that God enabled him to do it. 

Satan certainly makes his most determined effort to 
keep those souls who are escaping from his net. 

It is as the old darkey said to the college boy who 
asked him why he was so troubled about his sins. "I'm 
not troubled about mine, Tom ; how do you account 
for that?" To which the old darkey shrewdly replied, 
"I guess Satan has you so fast Massa he ain't trubbled 
no how about holdin' you. But he knows I'se escapin' 
him and he makes an awful effort to keep a holdin' of 
me tight." 

Not without a struggle will Satan lose his hold ; not 
without patience and faith will the soul escape his old 
time slavery. Faith, patience, obedience, these three, 
and the greatest of these is obedience. Our Moses will 
yet deliver us and bring destruction upon our enemies. 
He has his own plan and is working it out, and through 
our patience too. 

Now let us look at the plagues, ten in all, but divis- 
ible into three groups or cycles of three each, the last 
one being distinct and separate in intensity, in teach- 
ing and in result. 

The plagues were all directed against the Egyptian 
gods. The following charts will help us classify their 
order. The Encyclopaedia Britannica says of Egyptian 
mythology — of the making of gods there is no end — 
There were just three things Jannes and Jambres the 
Egyptian magicians could do — they could imitate. 

First, — The rod writhing as a serpent characteriz- 
ing Satan's work — Sin. 

Second, — They could change water into blood char- 
acterizing death. 

Third, — They could increase the number of frogs 
characterizing — uncleanness. 



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They could not produce or create life from the dead — 
as flies from dust. 

They were inspired by Satan. 

2 Tim. 3:8. 

8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these 
also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concern- 
ing the faith. 

IIThess. 2:9-12. 

9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with 
all power and signs and lying wonders, 

10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that 
perish ; because they received not the love of the truth, that they 
might be saved. 

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, 
that they should believe a lie: 

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, 
but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 

ISam. 28:8-20. 

8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and 
he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by 
night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar 
spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee. 

9 And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what 
Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar 
spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest 
thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die? 

10 And Saul sware to her by the Lord, saying, As the Lord 
liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing, 

11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? 
And he said, Bring me up Samuel. 

12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud 
voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou de- 
ceived me? for thou art Saul. 

13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest 
thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out 
of the earth. 

14 And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, 
An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And 
Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face 
to the ground, and bowed himself. 

15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to 
bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for 
the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from 
me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by 
dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make 
known unto me what I shall do. 



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16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, 
seeing the Lord is departed from thee, and is become thine 
enemy? 

17 And the Lord hath done to him, as He spake by me: for 
the Lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given 
it to thy neighbor, even to David: 

18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the Lord, nor exe- 
cutedst His fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the Lord 
done this thing unto thee this day. 

19 Moreover the Lord will also deliver Israel with thee into 
the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy 
sons be with me : the Lord also shall deliver the host of Israel 
into the hand of the Philistines. 

20 Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was 
sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no 
strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all 
the night. 

CHART 

1. Blood, vii. 14-25 — Against the Nile god, Osiris. 
Announced (June). Imitated by magicians. 

2. Frogs, viii. 1-11 — Against the frog goddess, 
Heka. Announced (September). Imitated by 
magicians. 

3. Flies, viii. 16-19 — Against the earth god, Keb. 
Unannounced (October). 

4. Beetles, viii. 20-32 — Against the beetle god, Khe- 
para. Announced (November). 

5. Murrain, ix. 1-7 — Against the cattle gods, Apis, 
etc. Announced (December). 

6. Boils, ix. 8-12 — Against the goddess Neit. Un- 
announced (January). 

7. Hail, ix. 13-35 — Against the air gods, Isis, etc. 
Announced (February). 

8. Locust, x. 1-20 — Against the insect gods. An- 
nounced (March). 

9. Darkness, x. 21-29 — Against the sun god, Ra. 
Unannounced (April). 

10. First-born slain, the finishing blow to the whole 
pantheon of helpless gods, xi. and xii. Compare 



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Pharaoh's destruction of infants (chaps, i., ii.), 
and that of Herod (Matthew ii). 

Do we ask, How could the magicians duplicate par- 
tially some of these plagues? We say partially, for 
they could not remove them. Two reasons are sug- 
gested : 

First. That they were enabled to do so by the agen- 
cy of Satan (cf. 2 Tim. 3:8; 2 Thess. 2:9-12; 1 Sam. 
28:8-20). 

Secondly. By conjuring — for the plagues which they 
duplicated were foreannounced, so that the magicians 
had time to prepare and practice their deception. 

Satan can and does imitate within limitations. He is 
a counterfeiter and imitator but God's people have a 
test by which they can try everything to see if it rings 
true. The Word of God is the test which tells wheth- 
er the glittering world is pure gold or imitation, — and 
the Spirit of God in the heart tries all false religions by 
the standards of God's written Word. Satan could 
imitate serpents, but he had no power to consume God's 
rod in the form of a serpent, and it, the true serpent, 
swallowed up the imitations. So the One Who shall 
rule with a rod of iron, Who took the serpent's form 
without the serpent's sting, will swallow up every ene- 
my of God's and reign supreme. 

I Cor. 15:54. 

54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, 
and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be 
brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed 
up in victory. 

Eev. 13:13,14. 

13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come 
down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 

14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth, by the means 
of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the 
beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should 
make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, 
and did live. 

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78 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Now let us look at the plagues more carefully and 
see their deep spiritual significance. 
The water cursed. 

The First Plague. — Water turned to Blood. — Or the 
defiling of the Nile god. — Osires. 

In this Moses' rod was used, symbol of his power, 
and the water which they worshipped and which sup- 
plied all their necessities, became polluted and defiled, 
leaving them helpless and sick. Egypt drank no water 
of the rain from heaven, its source of supply was not 
from above, and this is typical of the world which tries 
to quench its thirst from any other stream than the 
God-given Water of Life. God's streams are streams 
of refreshing, fountains ever flowing, springs in a dry 
and thirsty land. All other supplies are stagnant, fetid, 
death dealing. 

Jer. 2:13. 

13 For My people have committed two evils; they have for- 
saken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out 
cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. 

The Second Plague.- — Frogs coming from the river. 
Against the frog-goddess. Heka. 

Frogs alway typify uncleanness. The corruption 
which proceeds from lives lived without the cleansing 
of the Water of Life. The unclean things which spring 
from and grow in an unregenerate man's heart. 

Bo. 1:24-28. 

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through 
the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies be- 
tween themselves: 

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped 
and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed 
for ever. Amen. 

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for 
even their women did change the natural use into that which 
is against nature: 

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the 
woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men 
working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves 
that recompence of their error which was meet. 



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28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowl- 
edge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those 
things which are not convenient; 

Egypt worshipped frogs, and so men deify and glori- 
fy and make idols or gods of their own evil passions 
and lusts. These too will some day rise to plague them. 
Only those whose lives are cleansed can produce the 
fruits of the Spirit of God. 

John 7:37-38. 

37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and 
cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and 
drink. 

38 He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of 
his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 

The Land Cursed — dust of the earth. 

The Third Plague. — Lice, flies or gnats. Insect life 
a curse against the earth-god. — Keb or Leb. 

And now not only the water, but the earth is made a 
curse to them. The very dust of the earth will rise 
against the sinner, for it is the type of the death which 
overtakes him. "Dust thou art to dust returneth. ,, 

And Ps. 22:15, — speaks of the dust of death. 

15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue 
cleaveth to my jaws; and Thou hast brought me into the dust 
of death. 

As only God can bring life from the dead, so the ma- 
gicians or Satan's servants could not reproduce this 
miracle. Only God can create life. Satan brings but 
death. Only God can bring life from the dead ; and so 
as here the finger of God wrote upon the very dust 
of the earth His judgments, so Christ later wrote with 
His finger in the dust the judgment of the hardened, 
self-righteous Pharisees. 

The Air Cursed. On Egypt alone — Division now be- 
tween God's people and the world. 
The Fourth Plague. — The Beetles, or Insects. — 
Against the beetle-god. — Khepara. 



80 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

The Second Cycle of the judgments shows a separa- 
tion between God's people and the world's people. 
There is a division made by God between His own and 
the world. We are disciplined that we may not be 
condemned with the world, but we are not judged as 
they are, nor do we suffer the same plagues. There 
is a limit, to which we must suffer for our disciplining 
is for our salvation, not destruction, but the world's 
that they may be destroyed. 

The following story from France is a true instance 
of this. 

"The collection the boys had taken up had been so 
heavy that we carried it to the French lady's house 
for her. As we entered her home she said in her sim- 
ple way, as her eyes grew radiant with gratitude, "I 
like the English soldiers." It was the voice of France. 
And she was worthy to speak for France. For two-and- 
a-half years her house had stood within a mile of the 
German trenches, and but a few hundred yards from 
our own firing line. Yet she and her mother had never 
left it. She introduced me to her mother, who had 
lived in London, and spoke English. Then she brought 
in coffee. I had noticed a most remarkable thing about 
the house. There was not a piece of glass broken, nor 
a mark of war on the walls. It was the only house I 
have seen, either in Achicourt or Arrass, upon which 
the war has not laid its monstrous and bloody finger. 
"How is it," I asked the mother, "that your house has 
not been touched?" Her eyes shone and a sweet smile 
lit up her face. "It is the will of God," she said simply. 
"Shells have fallen a little short of us and a little be- 
yond us. They have passed within a yard of the house, 
and we have heard the rushing of the wind as they 
passed, but they have not touched us. When the vil- 
lage has been bombarded we have gone down into the 
cellar, as was but discretion and duty, but we have had 
the conviction all along that we should be spared, and 
we refused to leave the house. We do not know God's 
purpose but we believe that it is God's will to spare 
us." 



EEDEMPTION BY BLOOD 81 

I leave the fact to speak for itself and offer no expla- 
nation. Skeptics will say the house was spared by acci- 
dent ; but they would not have stayed there two-and-a- 
half years trusting to such an accident. These two 
women, without a man in the house, stayed on the very 
confines of hell with its hourly suspense and danger 
for nearly three years, because they believed it was 
God's will and that, though they walked through the 
fiery furnace heated seven times hotter than it was 
wont to be heated, He would not allow so much as a 
hair of their heads to be singed. And not a hair was 
singed. They were women in whom faith burned like 
a bright pillar of fire. One caught its light, and felt its 
heat. I have met patriots and heroes and know their 
quality when I see them and come near them. These 
were "the real thing."' Faith in God and faith in their 
country were interwoven in their spirits like sun and 
shower in a rainbow. 

They were of the same breed as the Maid of 'France, 
and like her, with their white banner bearing the de- 
vice of the Cross, they withstood and defied the might 
and terror of the invader. They believed it was God's 
will they should stay, to "Be still and know that I am 
God." Their experience was expressed by the Psalmist 
centuries ago ; "God is our refuge and strength, a very 
present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, 
though the earth be removed, and though the moun- 
tains be carried into the midst of the sea. Though the 
waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the moun- 
tains shake with the swellings thereof. . . . Come be- 
hold the works of the Lord, what desolations He hath 
made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the 
end of the earth ; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth 
the spear in sunder ; He burneth the chariot in the fire. 
The Lord of Hosts is with us ; the God of Ja- 
cob is our refuge." 

Such was the faith of these two women, and their 
courage few men have approached. It is a practical mat- 
ter, and after comparing it with the skeptic's theory of 



82 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

accident and coincidence and remembering his prob- 
able haste in seeking a place not so liable to untoward 
accidents, I accept the explanation of the women. Their 
house was spared and not a hair of their heads injured 
because "it was God's will." If it is not the correct 
theory, it ought to be. Otherwise falsehood is more sus- 
taining than truth, and inspires nobler conduct. 

The day was now over. A new chapter of life had 
been written, and in the morning we left behind us 
this village of precious memories, and marched out 
again into the unknown." 

There is a house shown the visitor in Old Chester, 
England, called God's Providence House, because dur- 
ing an awful scourge of the plague at one time, the in- 
mates of this house were the only ones in Chester 
spared from that dread disease and they attributed 
their escape entirely to prayer. So God puts a difference 
between His people and Satan's. 

And it is this plague which only Egypt suffered that 
leads Pharaoh to tempt Israel with a compromise. Go 
— he says, but sacrifice "in the land." How constantly 
Satan is repeating this temptation. Be a Christian, the 
world says, but don't be "narrow." Stay with us in 
Egypt, but don't be so queer. Worship all you please, 
but don't be so peculiar and different ; and the Church 
unfortunately has listened to this voice of compromise 
until it is almost impossible sometimes to tell which is 
Egypt and which is Christian. Worldly conformity, 
worldly pleasing, and seeking the world's money for 
God have not changed the world, but have weakened 
the Church. 



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THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD 

The Church and the World walked far apart 

On the changing shore of time; 
The World was singing a giddy song, 

And the Church a hymn sublime. 

"Come give me your hand," cried the merry world, 

"And walk with me this way;" 
But the good Church hid her snowy hand, 

And solemnly answered, "Nay, 
I will not give you my hand at all, * 

And I will not walk with you ; 
Your way is the way of eternal death, 

And your words are all untrue." 

"Nay, walk with me but a little space," 

Said the World with a kindly air; 
"The road I walk is a pleasant road, 

And the sun shines always there; 
Your way is narrow and thorny and rough, 

While mine is flowery and smooth; 
Your lot is sad with reproach and toil, 

But in circles of joy I move." 

"My way, you can see, is a broad, fair one, 

And my gate is high and wide; 
There is room enough for you and for me, 

To travel side by side." 

Half shyly the Church approached the World, 

And gave him her hand of snow; 
And the false World grasped it and walked along, 

Saying in accents low: 

"Your dress is too simple to please my taste, 

I have gold and pearls to wear; 
Rich velvets and silks for your graceful form, 

And diamonds to deck your hair." 

The Church looked down at her plain white robes, 

And then at the dazzling World, 
And blushed as she saw his handsome lip, 

With a smile contemptuous curled. 

"I will change my dress for a costlier one," 

Said the Church with a smile of grace; 
Then her pure white garments drifted away 

And the World gave in their place 



84 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Satins and silks and sealskins rare 

And roses and gems and pearls; 
And over her forehead fell her bright hair, 

Crisped in a thousand curls. 

"Your House is too plain," said the proud old World, 

"I'll build you one like mine, 
With Kitchen for feasting and Parlor for play, 

And furniture never so fine." 

So he built her a costly and beautiful house — 

Splendid it was to behold; 
Her sons and her daughters met frequently there, 

Shining in purple and gold. 

And Fair and Festival — frolics untold, 

Were held in the place of prayer. 
And maidens bewitching as sirens of old, 

With worldly graces rare, 
Invented the very cunningest tricks, 

Untrammeled by Gospel or Laws, 
To beguile and amuse and win from the World, 

Some help for the righteous cause. 

The Angel of Mercy flew over the Church, 

And whispered, "I know thy sin;" 
Then the Church looked sad and anxiously longed 

To gather the children in; 
But some were off at the midnight Ball, 

And some at the Eucher or Play; 
And some were drinking in gay saloons, 

As she quietly went her way. 

Then the sly World gallantly said to her, 

"Your children mean no harm, 
Merely indulging in innocent sports;" 

So she leaned on his proffered arm, 
And smiled and chatted and gathered flowers, 

As she walked along with the World; 
While millions and millions of precious souls 

To the horrible pit were hurled! 

"Your preachers are all too old and plain 

Said the gay world, with a sneer; 
"They frighten my children with dreadful tales, 

Which I do not like them to hear. 



REDEMPTION BY BLOOD 85 

They talk of Judgment, a Coming Lord, 

And the horrors of endless night; 
They warn of a place that should not be 

Mentioned to ears polite! 
I will send you some of a better stamp, 

Modern and brilliant and fast; 
Who will show how men may live as they list, 

And go to Heaven at last. 

The Father is merciful, great and good, 

Loving and tender and kind; 
Do you think He would take one child to Heaven 

And leave another behind? 

Go train your teachers up to the times, 

Adopt the stylish way; 
We all want Entertainment fine, 

And only that will pay." 

So she called for pleasing and gay divines, 

Gifted, and great and learned, 
And the plain old men that preached the Cross 

Were out of her pulpits turned. 

Then Mammon came in and supported the Church 

Renting a prominent pew; 
And preaching and singing and floral display, 

Proclaimed a period new. 

"You give too much to the poor," said the World, 

"Far more than you ought to do; 
Though the poor need shelter, food and clothes, 

Why need it trouble you? 

And afar to the heathen in foreign lands, 

Your thoughts need never roam; 
The Father of Mercies will care for them 

Let Charity begin at home. 

So take your money and buy rich robes, 

And horses and carriages fine; 
And pearls and jewels and dainty food, 

And the rarest and costliest wine. 

My children they dote on all such things, 

And if you their love would win, 
You must do as they do and walk in the ways 

That they are walking in." 



86 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Then the Church her purse-strings tightly held, 

And gracefully lowered her head, 
And simpered, "I've given too much away, 

I will do so, sir, as you have said." 

So the poor were turned from her door in scorn, 
And she heard not the orphan's cry; 

And she drew her beautiful robes aside 
As the widows went weeping by. 

Her Mission treasuries beggarly pled, 
And Jesus' commands were in vain; 

While half of the millions for whom He died 
Had never heard His name. 

And they of the Church and they of the World, 

Walked closely hand and heart, 
And none but the Master, who knoweth all, 

Could tell the two apart. 

Then the Church sat down at her ease and said, 

"I am rich in goods increased; 
I have need of nothing and nought to do, 

But to laugh and dance and feast." 

And the sly World heard her and laughed within, 

And mockingly said aside, 
"The Church has fallen, the beautiful Church, 

And her shame is her boast and pride." 

All her witnessing power, alas! was lost 

And the perilous times came in; 
The times of the end, so often foretold, 

Of form and pleasure and sin. 

Then the Angel drew near the mercy-seat, 

And whispered in sighs her name; 
And the saints their anthems of rapture hushed 

And covered their heads with shame. 

And a voice came down from the hush of heaven 

From Him that sat on the throne; 
"I know thy works and what thou hast said 

And how thou hast not known 
That thou art poor, and naked, and blind, 

With pride and ruin enthralled, 
The expectant Bride of a Heavenly Groom, 

Now the harlot of the world! 



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Thou hast ceased to watch for that Blessed Hope, 

And hast fallen from zeal and grace; 
So now, alas ! I must cast thee out, 

And blot thy name from its place." 

But it cannot be done. Paul says the Cross of 
Christ has crucified me to the world and the world to 
me. 

Ga. 6:14. 

14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, 
and I unto the world. 

The Cattle Cursed. On Egypt alone. 

The Fifth Plague.— The Murrain on the Cattle.— 
Against the cattle-god, — Apis. 

Now cattle are the ordained servants of man, the 
type of the service he needs and must receive from oth- 
ers; when this is not accepted and treated as God di- 
rects, it too becomes a curse and a foul sore. The world 
would be at peace if men served and were served as 
God intended. But look at the festering sores which 
break out from time to time on both those who serve 
and those who are served. Strikes, thefts, murders, an- 
archy, Bolshevism, the world is far, far from God in 
this, and God's judgment is bound to fall. Selfish in- 
terests, cruel oppression for both man and beast in 
service brings down God's just displeasure, and in time 
will breed their own disease. 

Hosea 11:4. 

4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I 
was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I 
laid meat unto them. 

Deut. 25:4. 

4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. 

Ja. 5:3. 

3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall 
be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. 
Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 

Pro. 14:31. 

31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but 
he that honoureth Him hath mercy on the poor. 



88 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Pro. 17:5. 

5. Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he 
that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. 

Man Cursed. On Egypt alone. 

The Sixth Plague. — Boils. — Against the goddess 
Neit. 

These were brought about by the sprinkling of the 
ashes of the furnace towards heaven, and the magicians 
could not, because they were themselves victims of the 
plague of the boils. So Satan's head shall be crushed, 
he himself in time will become the victim of the judg- 
ments of Almighty God. Egypt had been a very fur- 
nace of affliction for God's people Israel, and this was 
merely retributive justice. Eook at Russia and see in 
her treatment of the Jews the ashes she has been 
sprinkling towards heaven which shall return upon her 
own head in anarchy, riot and blood-shed. Especially 
must this plague have been to the Egyptians, (to whom 
cleanliness was not only next to godliness, but was 
with them a very part of their religion itself,) a terrible 
punishment, but it also signifies that moral uncleanness 
comes upon any people who are without the inner 
cleansing which can only come from God. These both 
were merely the surface expressions of what was cor- 
rupting the inside. It was the exposure of the inner 
disease and is the inside of the world in God's sight 
brought out for all to see. Man sees not as God sees, 
and God sees not as man sees. One day what is hid- 
den in the heart and life will appear upon the surface. 

Matt. 7:14-20. 

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which 
leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 

15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's 
clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 

16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes 
of thorns, or figs of thistles? 

17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a 
corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 

18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a 
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 



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19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, 
and cast into the fire. 

20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 

Matt. 15:18-20. 

18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth 
from the heart; and they defile the man. 

19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adul- 
teries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 

20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with 
unwashen hands defileth not a man. 

The Air Cursed. On Egypt alone unless Israel was 

disobedient. 

The Seventh Plague. — Hail. — Against the Air gods. 
Isis, etc. 

Hail from above. Not only will the natural things of 
the world apart from God bring their own punishment 
finally, but God will pour down from heaven His thun- 
ders and hail and fire because of the hardness of men's 
hearts. 

Kev. 8:7. 

7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire 
mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the 
third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt 
up. 

And in the 18th Psalm hailstones and coals of fire are 
emphasized as expressions of divine wrath. Cold is the 
absence of heat, as darkness is the absence of light. 
God is light, and heat is the glow of His presence, 
which towards sin is a flame of fire consuming; to- 
wards His own a cleansing, purifying furnace. When 
He withdraws His light and warmth, and His wrath is 
truly kindled His judgments will fall upon a world, 
rebellious, wicked, past hope. Today this judgment is 
suspended, and God is patiently waiting that all may 
escape the day of His wrath who will. 

Mai. 3:2. 

2 But who may abide the day of His coming? and who shall 
stand when He appeareth? for He is like a refiner's fire, and like 
fuller's sope: 



90 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Joel 2:11. 

11 And the Lord shall utter His voice before His army: for His 
camp is very great : for He is strong that executeth His word : for 
the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can 
abide it? 

Jer. 10:10. 

10 But the Lord is the true God, He is the living God, and an 
everlasting king: at His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the 
nations shall not be able to abide His indignation. 

The Crops Cursed — Against Egypt alone. 

The Eighth Plague. — Locusts. — Against insect gods. 

The locusts are a most peculiar insect. God's Word 
speaks of them as an army. 

Prov. 30:27. 

27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by 
bands; 

A woman who had lived many years in Kansas, told 
me she had seen an army of locusts eat their way in a 
wide path right across the state, not being turned to 
the right or the left by any obstacle they might en- 
counter. They darkened the sun and swarmed over 
buildings cutting a perfectly clean line as by a knife 
along field and orchard as they passed. 

Moved as it were by an invisible king, and the sym- 
bols of power, destruction, desolation and disaster 
which they are used to represent, show us conclusive- 
ly whose power is described. 

Joel 2:1. 

1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in My 
holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for 
the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 

Eev. 9:1-12. 

1 And the fifth angel sounded and I saw a star fall from heav- 
en unto the earth: and to Him was given the key of the bottom- 
less pit. 

2 And He opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke 
out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and 
the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 

3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: 
and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth 
have power. 



BEDEMPTION BY BLOOD 91 

4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the 
grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; 
but only those men which have not the seal of God in their fore- 
heads. 

5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but 
that they should be tormented five months: and their torment 
was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. 

6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find 
it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 

7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared 
unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like 
gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. 

8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth 
were as the teeth of lions. 

9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; 
and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of 
many horses running to battle. 

10 And they had tails like unto scorpions and there were stings 
in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. 

11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the 
bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, 
but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. 

12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more 
hereafter. 

It is as if the very forces of nature when let loose by 
man's wickedness attain to a monstrosity which turns 
upon and rends them. Man lets Satan have a foothold 
in his heart, starts the work of Satan in his soul, and 
is destroyed by that which he himself invited to dwell 
within. 

As the monster Frankenstein created and brought 
to birth, finally overpowered and destroyed him, or as 
Germany produced, equipped and let loose all the en- 
gines of war, which finally were turned back upon her- 
self and brought her to her knees, so man is corrupted 
and finally destroyed by the very evils he himself pro- 
duces, and nature illustrates this as in the case in point. 

Now again Pharaoh tries to compromise. "Go," — 
he says, "but leave your little ones." Oh the subtility 
of Satan. He knows how easily he can hold the par- 
ent if he can lay hold upon the child. How many, 
many parents have gone down into Egypt (the world) 



92 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

because of their children, allowing many practises ut- 
terly unfitted for a Christian home in order to please 
or propitiate the children. Thus Satan keeps his hooks 
in our jaws and leads us whither he will. Thank God we 
are promised salvation for ourselves and our little ones. 
God would not only have our allegiance an4 worship, 
but that of our children as well ; and while they must 
of their own accord accept and follow where He leads, 
yet if there is faith in God and faithfulness to God in 
the place where God has put us, we can rely upon His 
bringing us out of the world and our children with us. 
The very fact that there are exceptions, if there are, 
which I am inclined to doubt, only goes to prove the 
rule. 

Prov. 22:6. 

6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is 
old, he will not depart from it. 

It is not so much what we say to our children as 
what we are that will lead them to Christ. 

A college boy once told me that after he was in col- 
lege, he never could remember very much what his fa- 
ther had told him about doing right but whenever he 
was tempted to do wrong the memory of his father's 
character and the uprightness and cleanness of his life 
made him determine that he would not be the one to 
lower that high standard. Not what his father said but 
what his father was saved him. 

Girard in the Public Ledger says : "I have received 
from Rev. Clarence E. Macartney, D. D., pastor of the 
Arch Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, a re- 
markable array of talent in the shape of ministers' sons. 
The cold-type records prove that ministers, instead of 
rearing an army of shiftless scalawags, have given to 
the world an immense number of distinguished men. 
Who's Who shows that one-twelfth of all the men 
whose biographies appear there are sons of clergymen. 
England's Dictionary of Biography reveals an even 
greater preponderance of clerical forbears of noted 



EEDEMPTION BY BLOOD 93 

men. Sons of clergymen are nearly double the number 
of sons of lawyers and physicians combined. 

Who in American history were the sons of preach- 
ers? Of famous writers there stand Emerson, Holmes, 
Lowell, Bancroft, Parkman, Sloan, Golder and Henry 
James. In politics the answer to the roll call is equally 
impressive. Sons of ministers include Henry Clay, 
President Buchanan, President Arthur, Senator Quay, 
Senator Beveridge, Senator Oliver, President Wilson 
and Justice Hughes. Then there is the immortal Field 
family, embracing Cyrus W., who laid the first Atlan- 
tic cable ; David Dudley, the renowned lawyer, and 
Stephen J., the United States Supreme Court Justice. 
And equally renowned is the Beecher family, which in- 
cludes Henry Ward and Mrs. Stowe, author of "Uncle 
Tom's Cabin." The father was a preacher. Agassiz 
and Samuel F. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, and 
Mergenthaler, inventor of the linotype machine, were 
sons of clergymen. 

The list is inexhaustible, and in its blaze such names 
as Oliver Goldsmith, Linnaeus, the naturalist; Jenner, 
the father of vaccination for smallpox; Ben Jonson, the 
poet Cowper, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Charles Spurgeon, 
Lyman Abbott, Addison and President Grover Cleve- 
land. 

Instead of being amiable vagabonds, the sons of 
clergymen come pretty close to the rank of top-notch- 
ers in every field of human progress." 

The very fact that every notable exception is 
blazoned abroad proves the impression it makes, and 
that it is a glaring exception to the rule. I heard an 
eminent man say that he had made it his business 
to trace back to the home training the lives of young 
men who had gone astray in his acquaintance and in 
nearly every case the home training had been at fault. 
Today as of old the promise holds — Train up a child 
in the way he should go and when he is old he will not 
depart from it. 



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The Light Cursed — Over Egypt alone. God's chil- 
dren shall not walk in darkness but have the Light 
of Light. 

The Ninth Plague. — Darkness. — Against the sun- 
god. — Ra. 

Darkness, gross darkness, a darkness which could be 
felt. It seems as if God had now withdrawn Himself 
and left Pharaoh and his people to themselves. Noth- 
ing more can come but death. 

Is. 60:2. 

2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross 
darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and 
His glory shall be seen upon thee. 

God alone is light, and as yet no man has ever been 
without the light God. When God withdraws His 
presence then comes eternal night: God abandoned. — 
No one has suffered that upon this earth except the One 
upon Whom the bitter punishment for our sins fell, 
and He felt the full force of this awful suffering when 
God, Who cannot look upon sin, turned His face from 
His own Son when He hung upon the cross in the place 
of the sinner. Christ suffered what the sinner ought to 
suffer. We receive what Christ ought to receive as 
the sinless One. Today men only sit in the "shadow 
of death," who choose to. The real darkness can only 
fall when a soul rejecting the Light so freely offered 
here, goes out into the shadow. Then indeed, it is as 
when Judas turned his back on Christ, went out deter- 
mined to commit his dastardly deed, and the Holy Spir- 
it tells us, — "It was night." 

Remember, men bring down this curtain of black- 
ness on themselves. Men nailed the Son of God to the 
cross and darkness covered the land. Men turn their 
backs on the cross today, trying to climb up some oth- 
er way, and the darkness of doubt, superstition and dis- 
obedience falls. "The Light of the world is Jesus." 
There is no other light, there never will be any other 
light. Oh that men would come to the Light before 



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the awful curtain of God's wrath against sin falls nev- 
er to be again lifted. 

The plagues are only shadows of what is to come. 
When the world's cup of iniquity is, as Egypt's was, 
full, when the last Pharaoh, named Anti-christ, shall 
have reared his rebellious head against our God and 
His Christ, then will fall the judgments of which these 
are merely the shadow. 

Eev. 6:17. 

17. For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be 
able to stand? 

May we all, leaving the Egypt wherein so long Sa- 
tan has bound us his slaves to sin, pass out under the 
Blood, the Blood of the Lamb of God, nevermore to 
return thither. The choice lies in our own hearts. 



LESSON IV. 

PART I. REDEMPTION BY BLOOD. 
C. THE PASSOVER. 



THE RESULT OF THE PASSOVER. 

(d) The Passover Lamb. 

The Commands were issued. 
Ex. 12:1-28. 

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of 
Egypt, saying, 

2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it 
shall be the first month of the year to you. 

3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the 
tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a 
lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an 
house : 

4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and 
his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the num- 
ber of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make 
your count for the lamb. 

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year : 
ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 

6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the 
same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Is- 
rael shall kill it in the evening. 

7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two 
side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein 
they shall eat it. 

8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, 
and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 

9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with 
fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. 

10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; 
and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn 
with fire. 

11 And thus shall ye eat it ; with your loins girded, your shoes 
on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it 
in haste: it is the Lord's passover. 

12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and 
will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and 
beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judg- 
ment: I am the Lord. 

13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses 
where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, 
and the plague shall not be upon you io destroy you, when I 
smite the land of Egypt. 



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14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye 
shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; 
ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. 

15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first 
day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever 
eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, 
that soul shall be cut off from Israel. 

16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and 
in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no 
manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every 
man must eat, that only may be done of you. 

17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for 
in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land 
of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your genera- 
tions by an ordinance for ever. 

18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at 
even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth 
day of the month at even. 

19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: 
for whosoever eatettt that which is leavened, even that soul shall 
be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a 
stranger, or born in the land. 

20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall 
ye eat unleavened bread. 

21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said 
unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your 
families, and kill the passover. 

22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood 
that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts 
with the blood that is in the bason ; and none of you shall go 
out at the door of his house until the morning. 

23 For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and 
when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side 
posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the 
destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. 

24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee 
and to thy sons for ever. 

25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land 
which the Lord will give you, according as He hath promised, 
that ye shall keep this service. 

26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say 
unto you, What mean ye by this service? 

27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover, 
who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, 
when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And 
the people bowed the head and worshipped. 

28. And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord 
had commanded Moses and Aaron so did they. 



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The prominent feature of the Book of Exodus is the 
institution of the Passover and all that it signified. The 
people of Israel probably had no accurate knowledge of 
its deep significance, but they believed and obeyed, 
and it was counted unto them for righteousness ; while 
to us,— Paul's inspired explanation in 

Hebs. 11:28. 

28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of 
blood, lest He that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. 

teaches what was the thought of God in regard to it 
and why all was ordered as it was. 

I Cor. 5:7. 

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new 
lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is 
sacrificed for us: 

I Pet. 1:20. 

20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the 
world, but was manifest in these last times for you. 

Eev. 13:8. 

8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose 
names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain 
from the foundation of the world. 

The last judgment is about to fall, numerically it is 
the tenth, the number of "full responsibility in testing." 
The cup of Egypt's iniquity is now full. Nine times 
she has been given her chance to repent, and nine times 
has she refused in the person of Pharaoh, now her 
chance has gone, her opportunity has been withdrawn, 
she must suffer the consequence of her own wicked- 
ness. Moses is driven from the face of Pharaoh in an- 
ger with the fateful words, — 

Ex. 10:28,29. 

28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed 
to thyself, see my face no more: for in that day thou seest my 
face thou shalt die. 

29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face 
again no more. 

and God had, in the person of Moses, withdrawn 



102 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Himself from Egypt forever. "Thou hast spoken well 
(or the truth) I will see thy face again no more." 

The last blow in the series of divine judgments was 
a death-blow at the very life of the nation ! The death 
of the first-born son, while not the extinction of the 
entire race, is significant of the sentence of destruction 
upon the entire race, thus cut off in its hope and flower. 
From this judgment Pharaoh's own home is not ex- 
empted. The peculiar meaning of this judgment is 
found in the fact that it would have fallen upon the 
Hebrews, too, had they not been protected by the re- 
deeming blood of the Paschal Lamb. It seems, there- 
fore, to stand as the very type of God's eternal judg- 
ment on the whole fallen race represented by Egypt 
as the type of the world, and from which the children 
of faith were saved, not even by their national immuni- 
ties and privileges, but only by appropriating faith in 
the blood of redemption. Falling upon Pharaoh and 
his people with unmitigated and irremediable severity, 
it tells of the wrath of God which is revealed from on 
high against all unrighteousness of men; and which 
for those outside the covenant of grace and the blood 
of Jesus, hangs as a dark and fiery cloud of eternal 
death. 

The ten plagues of Egypt have been ingeniously ar- 
ranged by interpreters, as old as the Jewish Rabbis, 
in several series ; the first nine forming three clusters 
of three each, and the last one standing in awful isola- 
tion as the climax. At the end of the first three, the 
magicians of Pharaoh acknowledge the finger of God. 
At the end of the second three they fly in terror from 
His presence. And at the end of the third three, Pha- 
raoh refuses to see the face of Moses again, and is giv- 
en up with hardened heart to the inexorable judgment 
of God. 

In the first three there is no distinction between the 
Hebrews and the Egyptians. In the last seven the 
Egyptians only suffer, and the Hebrews are divinely 
exempted. These last seven are the peculiar types of 



EEDEMPTION BY BLOOD 103 

the judgments which are to fall in the last day upon 
the godless and anti-Christ world. They point forward 
to the last seven plagues which the angels of judgment 
are to pour out upon the earth, and from which the 
saints of God shall be exempt. In the vision of these 
judgments in the Book of Revelation, the song of 
Moses is strangely introduced, intimating a close rela- 
tion between the incidents we are now relating and the 
Apocalyptic vision. 

The entire ten plagues suggest the judgments of God 
upon Satan, upon the world, and upon Antichrist in 
the last days ; and at present the shadow side of God's 
great redeeming work, which follows as truly as the 
shadow follows the light. 

After the tenth plague notice every single thing be- 
longing to the Hebrews went out with them, not only 
did God loosen them from the yoke of the oppressors, 
but He brought out with them their children, their 
flocks and their herds, not a hoof remained behind, and 
He caused the Egyptians to load them with wealth, 
the back pay which as slaves had been wilfully with- 
held from them. This was now wrested from the op- 
pressor and they went out not empty handed, but with 
spoils. God will make even the wrath of man to praise 
Him. 

Ps. 76:10. 

10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee: the remainder 
of wrath shalt Thou restrain. 

Col. 2:15. 

15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a 
shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 

Prov. 11:1-3. 

1 A false balance is abomination to the Lord : but a just weight 
is His delight. 

2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly 
is wisdom. 

3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the per- 
verseness of transgressors shall destroy them. 



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Some carping critics, sticklers for great honesty, have 
complained that the Hebrews were not honest, as the 
record says they "borrowed" jewels from the Egyp- 
tians and never returned them. Really, if it was not so 
presumptuous in finite beings to try to find fault with 
the Infinite, it would be ludicrous. For all such criti- 
cism turn back to the original, and show the word 
translated, — borrow, means literally, — ask. God told 
them to ask for their back pay. They did, and they 
got it. The Egyptians never wanted it back, they were 
only too glad to see the last of them. 

Ex. 11:4-7. 

4 And Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, About midnight will 
I go out into the midst of Egypt; 

5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from 
the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto 
the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill and all 
the firstborn of beasts. 

6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of 
Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any 
more. 

7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog 
move his tongue, against man or beast; that ye may know how 
that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and 
Israel. 

Ex. 12:13-23. 

13 And the .blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses 
where ye are : and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, 
and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I 
smite the land of Egypt. 

14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye 
shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; 
ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. 

15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first 
day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever 
eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, 
that soul shall be cut off from Israel. 

16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and 
in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you ; no 
manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every 
man must eat, that only may be done of you. 

17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for 
in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land 
of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your genera- 
tions by an ordinance for ever. 



EEDEMPTION BY BLOOD 105 

18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at 
even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth 
day of the month at even. 

19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: 
for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall 
be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a 
stranger, or born in the land. 

20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall 
ye eat unleavened bread. 

21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto 
them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, 
and kill the passover. 

22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood 
that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts 
with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go 
out at the door of his house until the morning. 

23 For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; 
and when He seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two 
side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer 
the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. 

Before the last judgment falls God forever separates 
His people from Satan's people, and the separating 
mark is made by blood. Always from the slain animal, 
slain for Adam's covering, to the redeemed around the 
throne in heaven, the separating mark between saved 
and lost, between believer and unbeliever, between 
God's people and Satan's, — is the blood. And in the 
institution of the Passover its significance is most fully 
set forth. 

The first thing we notice in connection with it was 
the fact that it made a new year for God's people. 

Ex. 12:2. 

2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it 
shall be the first month of the year to you. 

Here we are taught that in God's sight there is no 
real life until one is born again. A man's life is of no 
account until he begins to walk with God. Previous to 
this he is dead in trespasses and sins, his whole history, 
no matter how important or successful according to 
man's standards, is according to God's a dead failure. 
Men speak of "seeing life." What a mockery. What 
they see is not true life at all, but sin, misery and 
death. Only he that hath the Son hath life. 



106 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

An old man of eighty was asked how old he was and 
he gave as his reply "One year, praise the Lord." Sev- 
enty-nine lost years — Born again just one year ago. 
So Israel out of fellowship with God, never has those 
years counted. Hence the difference between God's 
arithmetic and man's. 

Joel 2:25. 

25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath 
eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer- 
worm, my great army which I sent among you. 

A Superintendent of a large Sunday School asked a 
young man who returned to the school after many 
years of absence — 

"What are you going to do to make up for lost 
time?" 

Satan fools his dupes by his pretenses and imita- 
tions. He gilds the sin and wears borrowed plumage 
for his actors and pulls the wool over the eyes of the 
lost. Satan it is who runs the puppet show of this 
world and men forget that he is in the box and his 
one object is to keep them from Christ. But when one 
turns his back on Egypt and all its works one must 
forget the time spent in slavery to the brick kilns, and 
the indulgences of the flesh pots, and begin a new life 
in Christ Jesus. 

All that follows is to be carefully taught to the chil- 
dren that they may grow in grace and in the nurture 
and admonition of the Lord. It is not enough that we 
follow on to know the Lord, but our children are to see 
by our lives that we are different from the world 
around about us so that they will one day ask, — What 
mean ye by this service? 

Ex. 12:26. 

26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say 
unto you, What mean ye by this service? 

The divine order. — 

First, — Take a lamb, a selected lamb, a lamb of suf- 
ficient size, a strong lamb, male of the first year, a lamb 



EEDEMPTION BY BLOOD 107 

without spot or blemish, a lamb set aside for four days 
to be watched, that is, a tested lamb, and then on the 
fourteenth day of the month, it was to become a slain 
lamb. 

Here we see the deep typical teaching of God's lamb. 

He was selected by God. 

I Pet. 2:4. 

4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed 
of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 

I Pet. 1:20. 

20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the 
world, but was manifest in these last times for you. 

He was strong enough to bear the sins of the world, 
and the government of the world. 

Hebs. 9:28. 

28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many: and 
unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time, 
without sin, unto salvation. 

Is. 53:6. 

6 All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned every 
one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniq- 
uity of us all. 

Is. 9:6. 

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the 
government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be 
called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting 
Father, The Prince of Peace. 

He was without spot or blemish. 

Jno. 8:46. 

46 Which of you convinceth Me of sin? And if I say the 
truth, why do ye not believe Me? 

I John 3:5. 

5 And ye know that He was manifested to take away our sins ; 
and in Him is no sin. 

He was tested and tried, and found perfect. 

I Pet. 2:22-25. 

22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth: 

23 Who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He 
suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him 
that judgeth righteously: 



108 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

24 Who His own self hare our sins in His own body on the 
tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness : 
by whose stripes ye were healed. 

25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned 
unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. 

He was slain on the fourteenth day of the month for 
the sins of His people. 

John 13:1. 

1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that 
His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto 
the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, He 
loved them unto the end. 

John 19:14. 

14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the 
sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! 

I Cor. 5:7. 

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new 
lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is 
sacrificed for us: 

So we see that this lamb pointed forward unques- 
tionably to Christ. 1st Cor. 5 :7 settles it and all we 
have to do is to see what was commanded and apply 
the teaching to our own souls. 

But the slaying of the perfect lamb was not enough, 
else all the world, Egyptian as well as Hebrew, would 
have been saved. And here is where our Unitarian 
friends and Universalists and others who teach that all 
the world will be saved fall down. You find that teach- 
ing nowhere in Scripture. While the blood shed is suf- 
ficient, it does not become efficient until it is individual- 
ly applied, never forget that. 

The blood of the slain lamb was caught in a bason, 
but, and mark this well, every Israelite in order to be 
saved had to individually apply it to his own household. 
Ye shall sprinkle it, strike it, on the two side posts and 
on the lintel. Please notice, the blood was never placed 
under foot. There is a curse attached to all who tram- 
ple under foot (despise, make light of, count of no ef- 
fect) this precious blood. 



EEDEMPTION BY BLOOD 109 

Eo. 2:4-6. 

4 Or despisest thou the riches of His goodness and forbearance 
and longsuffering ; not knowing that the goodness of God lead- 
eth thee to repentance? 

5 But, after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up 
unto thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of 
the righteous judgment of God: 

6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds : 

Matt. 7:6. 

6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye 
your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their 
feet, and turn again and rend you. 

The bunch of hyssop was a common herb obtainable 
at their very doors, a child could gather it, so it stands 
for faith — faith which applies the blood to our own 
hearts, that common possession obtainable by the 
weakest and feeblest. 

So we see it was the blood on the lintel which saved, 
not what they thought about it, felt about it, said 
about it, but what they did about it. God had said, — 
"When I see the blood I will pass over you." They 
believed God, applied the blood as He commanded, and 
were safe. 

Some one has graphically pictured a Hebrew boy the 
night of the Passover worried for fear the blood had 
not been sprinkled on the doorposts and lintel and ap- 
pealing to his father to look out and see. He imagined 
the father assuring the boy that the lamb had been 
slain, the blood caught in the basin and orders given 
the servant to sprinkle the door in plenty of time. But 
the boy is not satisfied and insists upon seeing for him- 
self that the orders had been carried out. To satisfy 
him the father takes him to the door to prove that he 
is safe — when to their horror they find that no blood 
has been applied and the angel of death is fast ap- 
proaching. It takes but a minute of time for that fa- 
ther to seize the hyssop bunch, dip it in the basin of 
blood, sprinkle the lintel and posts of the door and thus 
himself insure the safety of his first born. 



110 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

The lesson is a true one, not the blood in the basin 
but the blood applied saves a soul. Not all the blood 
shed on Calvary's cross can save a soul from death 
until by faith (of which the hyssop bunch is a symbol) 
it is applied to the individual heart, then and then 
alone will the angel of death pass by. "And when I 
see the Blood I will pass over you." This one il- 
lustration alone forever refutes a bloodless religion 
such as Unitarianism, Universalism, Christian Science, 
etc. 

So every believer in the shed Blood of Christ as the 
one and only sign of safety is saved, whether he feels 
it or not. These people were not partly saved or partly 
lost, not saved one day and lost the next. Not saved 
if they felt like it one day and lost if they felt gloomy 
and depressed the next. If they were under the blood 
they were saved, and all saved alike, but mark you, 
some rejoiced in their salvation and were stronger for 
the march on that account, others were worried over 
their salvation and were weaker for the march, on that 
account. 

Nor was it personal worthiness, far from it, it was 
one thing and one thing only which saved, and that was 
as it ever has been and ever will be, — The Blood. To- 
day as on the First Passover Day God says, — When I 
see the blood I will pass over you. — Do you believe it? 
If you do, then you are safe and can go on feasting 
upon the good things God has prepared for His people 
and can march on to victory through floods of trial, 
straight into the promised land of faith, a land only 
reached by the saved people of God. 

Just one more thought before we take up the next 
step in the type. It was not the spotlessness of the liv- 
ing lamb that saved them; for not until the lamb had 
been slain was there salvation for others. So we see 
the perfect life of Christ was not the means of our sal- 
vation, although that was necessary to His ability to 
make atonement, but not until the life was laid down, 



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not until as substitute and sacrifice He died, was safety 
secured for others. No more false teaching in the 
world to-day, is given than that following Jesus mere- 
ly as teacher, guide, or model saves. 

The perfect man saved Himself by His perfect life 
which entitled Him to an entrance into heaven, but 
the life laid down in substitution, the bowing of the 
head to receive sin's death-blow, the offering of that 
perfect life in place of the life of each sinner, this and 
this alone made salvation for others possible. When I 
see, — God says, — not the life of Christ, — but the shed 
blood of Christ, will I remember your sins no more. 

Hebs. 9:22. 

22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; 
and without shedding of blood is no remission. 

Hebs. 12:24. 

24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the 
blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel, 

I Pet. 1:2. 

2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, 
through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprink- 
ling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be 
multiplied. 

Uohn 1:7. 

7 But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have 
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His 
Son cleanseth us from all sin. 

Eev. 1:5. 

5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the 
first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the 
earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins 
in His own blood. 

Eev. 7:14. 

14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to 
me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and 
have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of 
the Lamb. 

But we see after the blood was shed and sprinkled 
there was much, very much to follow, and for their 
feasting, for their nourishment, for their sustenance, 



112 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

minute directions were given, and ours is always the 
same divine order, — Salvation first, then feeding and 
fellowship, worship, walk and service. 

Their feeding was not what saved them, but their 
safety entitled and permitted them to feast. The lamb 
not only saved by its blood, but it became their nour- 
ishment by their feeding upon it. Very clearly we can 
see what is taught here. Christ not only saves, He 
nourishes just as far as we feed upon Him. 

John 6:54-58. 

54 Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal 
life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 

55 For My flesh is meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. 

56 He that eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, dwelleth 
in Me, and I in him. 

57 As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Fa- 
ther: so he that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me. 

58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as 
your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of 
this bread shall live for ever. 

John 15:4. 

4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit 
of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye 
abide in Me. 

I Pet. 2:2. 

2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that 
ye may grow thereby : 

And the lamb did not become nourishing until it had 
passed through the fire. Here again the teaching is 
exceedingly plain, and refutes the thought of ever be- 
ing saved by the holy life of Christ alone. Not until 
He had passed through the furnace of God's affliction, 
not until He had been tried by fire could He become 
the Bread of the World. Throughout the entire Word 
of God without exception leaven stands as the type of 
sin. The saved people were to search diligently for 
any hidden sign of sin and put it away. Search me and 
see if there be any wicked way in me, says the Psalm- 
ist. 



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Ps. 139:24. 

24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in 
the way everlasting. 

Cleanse thou me from secret faults. 

Ps. 19:12. 

12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse Thou me from 
secret faults. 

Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. 

Matt. 16:6. 

6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the 
leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. 

Purge out therefore the old leaven. 

I Cor. 5:7,8. 

7. Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new 
lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is 
sacrificed for us: 

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither 
with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the un- 
leavened bread of sincerity and truth. 

These are the commands to the children of God if 
they will feast with Him. 

But what are the bitter herbs? Ah, these are the 
reminders of the fact that it was for our sins He hung 
and suffered there. Bitter indeed was the cup He had 
to drain in order to save us, and as we journey here 
below all cannot be sweet for those who follow the 
Lamb. Some bitterness too in small degree at least we 
must suffer before we reach the land of sweetness, 
flowing with milk and honey. But even the bitter nour- 
ishes, and the bitter will be swallowed up some day 
and forgotten. "No chastening for the present seem- 
eth to be joyous, but grievous : — bitter — nevertheless 
afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteous- 
ness unto them that are exercised — sweetened — there- 
by. 

Hebs. 12:11. 

11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, 



114 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable 
fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. 

God says the entrance of His Word giveth light, but 
it also brings bitterness. 

Ps. 119:130. 

130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth under- 
standing unto the simple. 

Rev. 10:9-10. 

9 And I went unto the angel, and saith unto him, Give me 
the little Book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; 
and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth 
sweet as honey. 

10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate 
it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as 
I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. 

As Christ bore the bitterness of death for us, so we 
His redeemed must be crucified with Him to the world. 
We too must have some bitterness. If the world hated 
Him it will hate us also. But thank God the bit- 
terness is only for a time, the sweetness endures 
throughout all eternity. 

So we see how the lamb was to be feasted upon, not 
raw or sodden, unbaked or untried ; but a suffering 
Lamb Who had passed through the fire and come out 
thoroughly capable of feeding His own. And all that 
is His is now ours, His intellect, His walk, His perfec- 
tion, all is to be appropriated by faith as given for us. 

Upon Christ we are to depend for our safety, upon 
Christ we are to feed for our strength, and to Christ 
we are to look for our guidance, because once we are 
His we become pilgrims and strangers, earth (Egypt) 
ceases to be our home. We follow our Leader, every 
day a day's march nearer home. He the Good Shep- 
herd goes before marking out every step of the way, 
choosing our inheritance for us. Ours but to believe 
and to follow. 

Nothing to be left. The unregenerate could not 
gather of the crumbs. God's mercy has a time limit to 
it. To-day Christ is offered both as Saviour and 



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Strength, when the day of mercy closes all chance is at 
an end. ^ No profane person may feast on what God 
has provided for His pilgrim people. When they went 
out Jehovah went with them. When the Church goes 
out of the world God the Holy Spirit goes with it, 
and woe to the world then, only death remains. 

So they ate it standing, loins girt, ready for the call 
of God, ready to leave all and follow Him, — like Re- 
becca, they went out not knowing whither they went, 
but willing to follow where He should lead. And so 
must we. Shoes on their feet, all provision made for 
the journey. In Christ we find our full equipment, 
nothing we need is lacking. 

Phil. 4:19. 

19 But my God shall supply all your need according to His 
riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 

Eph. 6:10-17. 

10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the 
power of His might. 

11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to 
stand against the wiles of the devil. 

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against 
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness 
of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye 
may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, 
to stand. 

14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, 
and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 

15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of 
peace ; 

16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be 
able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the 
Spirit, which is the word of God: 

Phil. 4:13. 

13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. 

Even the staff is provided on which to lean, symbol 
of their dependence upon another and not themselves. 
It must have been a wonderful sight in Egypt that 
night. The gathering storm of God's wrath outside, 



116 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

the avenging angel waiting overhead. All Israel safe 
behind the blood-marked door, feasting in peace on the 
roasted lamb, the unleavened bread, the bitter herbs. 
No fear of judgment for them. No terror of the angel 
of death for them. No dread of the wrath of Jehovah 
for them. He Who had planned their deliverance was 
able to execute it. His sign was over them. They ate 
in peace. God had done it all, they had only to receive 
and be thankful. 

The separation of Israel is taught by the blood. The 
unity of Israel is taught by the method of feasting. In 
one house, a lamb for a house and no bone to be broken. 
So there is in the Church to-day but one body and one 
Spirit. Separated by the precious blood we are in 
peace to feast together as one body, by the power of 
the Holy Spirit. 

And as not a bone of Him Who died for us was to 
be broken, — (His body was broken for us but not a 
bone of Him) — 

Ps. 34:20. 

20 He keepeth all His bones: not one of them is broken. 
John 19:36. 

36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be 
fulfilled, A bone of Him shall not be broken. 

So there is to be no breaking or rending or separat- 
ing of His mystical body, the Church. We are all one 
in Christ Jesus. "Therefore let us keep The Feast." 

I Cor. 5:7-8. 

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new 
lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is 
sacrificed for us. 

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither 
with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the un- 
leavened bread of sincerity and truth. 

It is known in chemistry that scarlet and crimson 
colors are ineradicable. They never wear out or fade 
away; but, with Christ's blood, "though your sins be 
as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; though they 



REDEMPTION BY BLOOD 117 

De red like crimson, they shall be as wool." In science, 
blood is a bleacher ; in medicine, blood is a revivifier, by 
the transfusion of blood, a dying person recovers his 
life, for there is life in the blood. Therefore, it is not 
strange that in the higher realm, the sinsick soul par- 
takes of the divine nature through the blood of Jesus, 
so that he exclaims, "I live, yet not I, but Christ liv- 
eth in me." 



LESSON V, 

PART I. REDEMPTION BY BLOOD. 
D. THE PASSING OUT. 



THE GUIDANCE AND PROTECTION 
OF JEHOVAH. 

RED SEA— PILLAR AND CLOUD. 

SONG. 

Ex. 13:17-22. 

17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, 
that God led them not through the way of the land of the Phil- 
istines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure 
the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 

18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wil- 
derness of the Eed sea: and the children of Israel went up 
harnessed out of the land of Egypt. 

19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him : for he had 
straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely 
visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you. 

20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped 
in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. 

21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a 
cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to 
give them light; to go by day and night: 

22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the 
pillar of fire by night from before the people. 

Ex. 14:13-31. 

13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, 
and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will shew to you 
to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall 
see them again no more for ever. 

14 The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. 

15 And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto 
Me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: 

16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over 
the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on 
dry ground through the midst of the sea. 

17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, 
and they shall follow them: and I will get Me honour upon 
Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his 
horsemen. 

18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I 
have gotten Me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and 
upon his horsemen. 



122 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Is- 
rael, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the 
cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: 

20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the 
camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but 
it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near 
the other all the night. 

21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the 
Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that 
night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 

22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea 
upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them 
on their right hand, and on their left. 

23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the 
midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his 
horsemen. 

24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord 
looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire 
and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, 

25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them 
heavily: so that the Egyptians said Let us flee from the face 
of Israel: for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians. 

26 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over 
the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, 
upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. 

27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the 
sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and 
the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyp- 
tians in the midst of the sea. 

28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the 
horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea 
after them; there remained not so much as one of them. 

29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the 
midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their 
right hand, and on their left. 

30 Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the 
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea 
shore. 

31 And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon 
the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and believed 
the Lord, and His servant Moses. 

Ex. 15:1-3. 

1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto 
the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for He 
hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath He 
thrown into the sea. 



EEDEMPTION BY BLOOD 123 

2 The Lord is my strength and song, and He is become my sal- 
vation: He is my God, and I will prepare Him an habitation; 
my father's God, and I will exalt Him. 

3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is His name. 

After redemption — a new walk with God — a passing 
out from the old life never to return. 

Israel, redeemed by the blood, started a new life en- 
tirely — old things were passed away, behold all things 
were become new. 

II Cor. 5:17. 

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: 
old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 

We must never forget that the children of Israel 
were under the sentence of death against the first born 
as well as Egypt. 

All have sinned and the sentence of death is upon 
the race. 

The firstborn always means the natural man, the 
firstborn. In order to be saved one must be born again. 

What then saved them? Only their substitute. The 
Lamb slain and applied according to God's word. The 
death blow fell on the lamb in place of the sinner. So 
every man must be redeemed by the applied blood of 
God's Son. 

How true this is in the Christian life. 

Redeemed by the precious blood of Christ, we owe a 
new allegiance, follow a new guide, shake the dust of 
the old life of bondage to sin forever off our feet, and 
with loins girt about with truth, and feet shod with the 
preparation of the gospel of peace, with the staff for 
service we too start out for that new country, to be 
henceforward always under the direct guidance, train- 
ing and correction of the Lord. 

Let us look for a moment at the scene. In every 
house in Egypt the first-born lay dead. 

This is what rebellion against God brings them to. 
The joy of life is shattered. The best-beloved is gone 



124 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

forever. Oh, I tell you when the judgments of God 
against a rebellious world fall there will be anguish and 
gnashing of teeth. Very different is the wilderness ex- 
perience. There is discipline there ; there is suffering 
there ; there is correction and chastisement there ; but 
all is measured by divine love and pity ; and all is to 
save, not to destroy. For God's redeemed child in love 
and not in anger all His chastisements do come. Now 
let us see how it was in the case of Israel. 

Ex. 13:17. 

17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, 
that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philis- 
tines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure 
the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 

1st. Notice the tender compassion of Jehovah. His 
redeemed people were a very feeble people as yet in 
regard to their faith. Just little new-born ones, need- 
ing careful nourishment for their strengthening. So 
they were spared too great a strain on their faith, war 
with the Philistines. Not, mark you, that God was not 
able, but that as yet they were not able. 

Later on they became men of war and defeated great 
enemies, but now they were a feeble folk, and like as a 
father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them 
that fear Him. He remembereth that they are dust. 

Oh, how often our loving father has taken us a 
long way round because we had not faith for the 
short cut. How much of suffering, discipline and 
temptation God has spared us by His guidance we will 
never know until we see Him face to face and know 
even as we are known. 

We too are to learn from this that unless God direct- 
ly brings us face to face with temptation we are by no 
means to run into it. The child of God is again and 
again told to flee from evil, for we can only conquer 
when God is with us. 

A colored man claimed to be soundly converted. A 
few days after his conversion his master saw him put- 



EEDEMPTION BY BLOOD 125 

ting his hand in a chicken coop, in a very suspicious 
manner. He called to him, "Sam, I thought you said 
you had been converted the other night." "Yes, sah," 
said Sam "I was and I is just trying out the strength 
of my resolutions." Too many of us like Sam venture 
back on to Satan's ground and then, are surprised when 
he trips us up. 

2nd. Joseph's bones went with them, proof of the 
fact that the redemption purchased by Christ, redeems 
body as well as soul. 

Even our dust cannot remain in Egypt, Satan's ter- 
ritory. The dead in Christ shall rise first — then we 
which are alive and remain shall be caught up. The 
corruptible (dead) must put on incorruption (life), the 
mortal (living) immortality (changed body like 
Christ's). Living and dead are united in resurrection 
power, and Joseph by faith believed it and gave orders 
accordingly ; and his dust went up with them. 

If a grain of our dust was left in the earth, Satan 
would still hold a portion of us. Christ redeems us 
body, soul and spirit. 

3rd. The pillar — a cloud by day, fire by night. Not 
alone were they left to face the perils of the pilgrim's 
walk. No, indeed. The angel of the Lord went before 
to guide and behind to protect. 

The Lord is my shepherd ; He leadeth me in the 
paths of righteousness for His name's sake. He spread- 
eth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. 

Ps. 23. 

1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 

2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me 
beside the still waters. 

3 He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of right- 
eousness for His name's sake. 

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of 
death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and 
Thy staff they comfort me. 

5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine 
enemies : Thou anointest my head with oil : my cup runneth over. 

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of 
my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. 



126 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Divine guidance — only His own see the fire and the 
cloud. 

Ps. 32:8. 

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt 
go: I will guide thee with Mine eye. 

Is. 30:21. 

21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This 
is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and 
when ye turn to the left. 

The divine presence was as a cloud by day. What 
mercy here. Not only did it serve as a guide but as a 
covert from the storm, as a protection from the fierce 
tropical sun, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary 
land. 

Truly Israel was gathered under the shelter of the 
divine wing as Jesus later longed to gather her once 
more. 

Matt. 23:37. 

37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and 
stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have 
gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her 
chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 

Ps. 91:1-4. 

1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall 
abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 

2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress : my 
God; in Him will I trust. 

3 Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, 
and from the noisome pestilence. 

4 He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings 
shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 

And then when the times altered and dangers altered 
the divine presence altered to meet all emergencies. 
The cloud shone with the Shekinah glory — a pillar of 
fire, again not only as guide but as a light on the path- 
way. 

A lantern that their footsteps might not slide and 
an avenging fire to consume any enemy which might 
try to advance under cover of the darkness. 



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Truly of Israel's God only could it be said "Behold, 
He that keepeth Israel shall not slumber nor sleep. 

Ps. 121:3,4. 

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth 
thee will not' slumber. 

4 Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor 
sleep. 

Prov. 4:18. 

18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth 
more and more unto the perfect day. 

John 8:12. 

12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light 
of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, 
but shall have the light of life. 

What need for any feeble Israelite to fear by day. 
He could look up to the sky and say, "He keepeth 
watch over His own." By night he could look up and 
say, "Darkness and light are both alike to Thee." 

Ps. 139:12. 

12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night 
shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike 
to Thee. 

Jehovah's night Lamp. 

Jehovah's day shade — Covering them as a tent. 

Ps. 121:6-8. 

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. 

7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: He shall preserve 
thy soul. 

8 The Lord shalj preserve thy going out and thy coming in 
from this time forth, and even for evermore. 

Ps. 127:2. 

2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the 
bread of sorrows: for so He giveth His beloved sleep. 

Ex. 13:9. 

9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for 
a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lord's law may be in 
thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee 
out of Egypt. 

So much for Israel. Now go back to Egypt for a 
moment. 



128 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

But God was not through with Egypt yet, because 
Egypt was not through with God. After 10 plagues 
and the death of all their hopes, their first-born — their 
hearts were unrepentant still. Still they hoped to con- 
quer God and get their own way — proof that the judg- 
ments of God at the end of the world will not cause men 
to repent. 

Eev. 16:9-11. 

9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed 
the name of God, which hath power over these plagues : and they 
repented not to give Him glory. 

10 And the fifth angel poured out His vial upon the seat of 
the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they 
gnawed their tongues for pain, 

11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains 
and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. 

In Rev. 16:19, 

19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the 
cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remem- 
brance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the 
fierceness of his wrath. 

we are told they only blasphemed the more. The age 
of grace fails to reach those who harden their hearts 
against God and the age of judgment fails as well. 
Man's heart is a desperately wicked thing. No man 
really knows his own heart, and only the power of God 
can change it, and only yielding to God ever permits 
Him to work the change. 

So Egypt pursued after Israel and brought about 
their own destruction. 

So men today defy God and rush on to their own 
ruin and none can stop. 

But what of Israel. They of course are marching 
triumphantly forward, singing songs of praise to Jeho- 
vah for His promised care of them. So we would ex- 
pect, or so we think they ought to have been doing. 
And so we bitterly criticize them for not doing. 

For far from this, at the very first sign of danger they 
cower in fear, they bitterly reproach Moses for bring- 



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ing them out, and this is reproaching God, for back of 
Moses was God. So we, when we rebel at circum- 
stances, bitterly complain of people's treatment of us, 
are really complaining at God and heaping reproaches 
upon His head. For back of every circumstance, back 
of every person, back of every disappointment, stands 
God. A man writes : Once when I was convalescing 
from a long illness, it was suggested that for the bene- 
fit of the change I visit the British Provinces. The ar- 
rangements were all made when, unexpectedly, anoth- 
er malady threw me on my bed again. How disap- 
pointing this was ! For what was I waiting longer in 
the sick room? I soon received a satisfactory answer. 
Picking up the newspaper I read that the steamer in 
which I would have sailed struck a reef on entering St. 
John harbor, and almost instantly sunk. It may be 
that in His mercy God is now holding back some of 
you from a more disastrous shipwreck. None know 
how often God has saved us by some disarrangement 
of our plans ; some apparent disaster in our lives. 

Someone has said "our disappointments should read 
His appointments, our interruptions, His opportuni- 
ties." 

Let us be very careful that with more light than ever 
Israel had with the pillar of fire, we are not as rebel- 
lious and as unworthy as they. 

Suppose they had died at the shore of the Red Sea. 
It was better for them to die there free men with God 
than to have died by the cruel sting of the enemies' 
whip, slaves in Egypt. Far better it is to suffer afflic- 
tion with the people of God than to suffer it in the 
tents of wickedness. 

I would rather suffer any day as a Christian than as 
a sinner. 

Wouldn't you? 

Well thank God in spite of murmurings, complain- 
ings, rebellion, God remains true. His promise holds, 
and holds throughout eternity. Israel lost her oppor- 



130 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

tunity to testify to the keeping power of her God, but 
God did not fail her on that account. 

In fact, Israel was out of the reckoning altogether. 
God was getting glor}^ to Himself now. Israel had 
nothing to do but stand still and see the salvation of 
God. 

The warfare was between Jehovah and Pharaoh. God 
and Satan finishing a hand to hand conflict. And so 
Christ, the Angel of Jehovah, utterly routs Satan's 
army in the end time and casts him into the lake of fire 
forever. 

As the waves rolled over Pharaoh's host so the waves 
of destruction will one day close over Satan's, and he 
will trouble Israel, God's people, no more. 

But let us see how. 

Ex. 14:19-31. 

19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Is- 
rael, removed and went behind them: and the pillar of the 
cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: 

20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the 
camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but 
it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near 
the other all the night. 

21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the 
Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that 
night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 

22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea 
upon the dry ground : and the waters were a wall unto them 
on their right hand, and on their left. 

23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the 
midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his 
horsemen. 

24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord 
looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire 
and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians. 

25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them 
heavily: so that the Egyptians said Let us flee from the face of 
Israel: for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians. 

26 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over 
the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, 
upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. 

27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the 
sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and 



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the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the 
Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 

28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the 
horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea 
after them; there remained not so much as one of them. 

29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the 
midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their 
right hand, and on their left. 

30 Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the 
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea 
shore. 

31 And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the 
Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and believed the 
Lord, and His servant Moses. 

Here was Israel caught in a net apparently, and so 
Pharaoh thought, with the Red Sea a place of death 
before them, and Pharaoh's pursuing army, a place of 
death behind, and they between with no weapon and no 
ships. Truly Israel of herself could do nothing. 

Yes one thing; and they did that. They cried unto 
the Lord. To be sure, it was a pretty poor cry, and it 
was but the whimper of the scared child that knows not 
yet the love and power of the parent. And God had 
it all planned beforehand. What He would do. "Be- 
fore they call I will answer." Before they commenced 
to understand their danger that vehement east wind 
was tearing on its errand to protect them. 

A remarkable incident occurred in connection with a 
railway accident in northern Ohio. A car on the Lake 
Shore Electric railway, that should have stopped at a 
switch to let a car coming from the opposite direction 
pass, went on, and then it was foreseen that a collision 
would inevitably take place. Instantly word was tele- 
phoned to the superintendent, who immediately started 
with a wrecking crew towards the point where it was 
known the collision would occur, gathering up physi- 
cians as he went. The wrecking crew and the physi- 
cians were thus on the way to the accident before it had 
taken place, and they arrived at the point 28 minutes 
after it had occurred, and ministered to the injured and 
dying, for 3 were killed and over 50 were injured. 



132 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

"The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world," is 
one of the pregnant passages and profound truths of 
Scripture. God foresaw the collision in the garden of 
Eden that "brought death into the world and all our 
woe." He did not wait for the wreck to occur and 
then set about devising means for relieving it, but "be- 
fore the mountains were brought forth .... even from 
everlasting" He gave His Son and started Him towards 
the point of sin and death that He might bind up earth's 
wound and give healing and life. God's remedies antic- 
ipate all our diseases, the whole plan of His world is 
saturated with redemptive virtue. This fact is no justi- 
fication for sinning any more than the anticipatory ac- 
tion of the railway superintendent excused the motor- 
man's fatal forgetfulness, but it illuminates the exceed- 
ing greatness of God's mercy and should fill us with 
gratitude, and make us all the more obedient. 

All God's forces were moving at His command for 
the delivery of His frightened children. The protect- 
ing covering completely shielded them from the ap- 
proaching enemy; the rising wind completely marked 
out the safe path for them to follow. 

Never back. For the child of God, forward always 
at God's command. Is the sea before? well step fear- 
less in. Thou shalt either walk it in His strength, or 
it shall recede for thee. 

Speaking of faith, an old darky minister explained 
thus to his audience : "Bredren, if the Lawd done tole 
me to jump troo dat stone wall, my business is to jump 
at it, it's de Lawd's business to get me troo." 

The shepherd's rod in Moses' hand was the outward 
sign to that great multitude of Jehovah's shepherding 
care. The Good Shepherd has promised His undying 
and never ending care so that we may boldly say: 
"Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of 
death I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod 
and Thy staff they guide me." 

And so all Israel went safely where it was death 
for Pharaoh to follow. 



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I tell you, Christians can do many things when or- 
dered of God which would be death for an unbeliever 
to attempt. 

Truly the waters of death roll betw r een the child of 
God and the sinner. 

The Red Sea is always a type of death. The other 
side, the resurrection ground of those who have been 
saved from death by the Good Shepherd, who giveth 
His life for the sheep. 

And oh that rod in our Shepherd's hand is the token 
of His guidance, His protecting care. 

No man, no Pharaoh, no Kaiser, no devil can pluck 
them out of His pierced hand. The Lamb slain was the 
token. God had undertaken to make them His people, 
and what God undertakes He will also do. 

II Tim. 1:12. 

12 For the which cause I also suffered these things : neverthe- 
less I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and 
am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have com- 
mitted unto Him against that day. 

It is after we have passed from death unto life that 
we are enabled to sing praises. 

The Song of Moses is the Key note of all songs of 
redemption that fill the Bible. 

No singing of the new song while in bondage to sin. 
Men never praise God until they have been born again, 
redeemed from destruction, and begin the walk with 
God. 

Truly there must be the new heart before there is the 
new walk. And there must be the new heart and the 
new walk before there is the new song. This very song 
of Moses with a glorious addition, all the redeemed of 
the Lord will sing some day. The Song of Moses and 
the Lamb. 

Eev. 15:3,4. 

3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the 
song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, 
Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of 
saints. 



134 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

4 Who shall not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? 
for Thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship 
before Thee; for Thy judgments are made manifest. 

They were not all trained singers either that sang 
that song but God hears the music of the heart. 

An old legend is given that illustrates the point. 

The Brothers in a monastery were beloved for their 
loving sympathy and kind deeds, but not one of them 
could sing; the music in their services was a great 
failure and this was a great grief for them. One day a 
traveling monk asked for entertainment, and to their 
great joy he proved to be a wonderful singer. High 
and sweet and clear his voice soared over all the other 
voices. And one by one the rest of the monks stopped 
singing to listen until finally the visiting Brother sang 
alone. That night an angel came to the abbot in a 
dream. "Why was there no music in your chapel to- 
night?" he asked. "Up in heaven we always listen for 
the beautiful music that rises from your services ; and 
tonight we were sadly disappointed." "Oh, you must 
be mistaken," said the abbot, "we had a trained singer 
with a wonderful voice. For the first time in all these 
years our music was beautiful." "And yet up in heav- 
en," said the angel, "we heard nothing." 

God only hears the heart music. "They that wor- 
ship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." 

There is a beautiful custom among the herdsmen in 
the Alps. They use a horn to call their cattle ; but the 
horn is also used for another purpose, solemn and re- 
ligious. As soon as the sun has disappeared, and its 
last rays are glimmering on the summits of the moun- 
tains, the herdsman who dwells farthest up the moun- 
tains takes his horn and trumpets forth: "Praise God 
the Lord." Instantly all the herdsmen in the neigh- 
borhood take their horns and repeat the words, "Praise 
God the Lord." This continues for some minutes while 
on all sides the mountains echo the praises of God. A 



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solemn stillness follows and every one offers his silent 
prayer on bended knee. By this time it is dark, and 
then the herdsman on the loftiest height peals forth in 
his own musical French, "Good-night," and "Good- 
night" is repeated on all the mountains, from the horns 
of the herdsmen and the clefts of the rocks. 

I think since the ending of the war we can far bet- 
ter appreciate the feeling of gratitude and exultation 
which the children of Israel felt when, delivered from 
the hand of the oppressor, they sang praises. 

In slight measure we too have felt the hand of the 
enemy and feared his pursuit, but we also made our 
cry unto God and He heard us. We can say with the 
Psalmist. 

98:1. 

1 O sing unto the Lord a new song; for He hath done mar- 
vellous things: His right hand, and His holy arm, hath gotten 
Him the victory. 

Ex. 15:1-3. 

1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto 
the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for He 
hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath He 
thrown into the sea. 

2 The Lord is my strength and song, and He is become my 
salvation : He is my God, and I will prepare Him an habitation ; 
my father's God, and I will exalt Him. 

3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is His name. 



LESSON VI. 

PART II. SANCTIFICATION BY POWER. 
A. THE TESTING. 



THE TESTING— WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE. 

Ex. 15:22-27. 

22 So Moses brought Israel from the Bed sea, and they went 
out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in 
the wilderness, and found no water. 

23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the 
waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of 
it was called Marah. 

24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall 
we drink? 

25 And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a 
tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were 
made sweet : there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, 
and there he proved them, 

26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the 
Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and 
wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, 
I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought 
upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee. 

27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, 
and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by 
the waters. 

Ex. 16:11-31. 

11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 

12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: 
speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the 
morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that 
I am the Lord your God. 

13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and 
covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about 
the host. 

14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the 
face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small 
as the hoar frost on the ground. 

15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to 
another, It is manna : for they wist not what it was. And Moses 
said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you 
to eat. 

16 This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather 
of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, 
according to the number of your persons; take ye every man 
for them which are in his tents. 



140 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, 
some less. 

18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered 
much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; 
they gathered every man according to his eating. 

19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning. 

20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some 
of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and 
stank: and Moses was wroth with them. 

21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according 
to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. 

22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered 
twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers 
of the congregation came and told Moses. 

23 And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath 
said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: 
bake that which ye, will bake to day, and seethe that ye will 
seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be 
kept until the morning. 

24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade : and it 
did not stink, neither was there any worm therein. 

25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath 
unto the Lord : to day ye shall not find it in the field. 

26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which 
is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. 

27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people 
on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. 

28 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep 
My commandments and My laws? 

29 See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore 
He giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye 
every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the 
seventh day. 

30 So the people rested on the seventh day. 

31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: 
and it was like coriander seed, white ; and the taste of it was like 
wafers made with honey. 

One would suppose, unless one had studied human 
nature or his own heart, that after such a signal vic- 
tory, such a glorious deliverance, such a miraculous 
manifestation of the power of God, that the rest of the 
journey from Egypt to the Land of Canaan would be 
smooth sailing and a quick trip. 

If you look on your map you will see that a direct 
line from the Red Sea to the land is only about 150 



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miles, and this with easy walking for the flocks, the 
old people and the children could readily have been 
made in a few days. Yet we read that they were forty 
years making the trip. 

What was the trouble? The answer is found in the 
word wandered. 

Num. 14:33. 

33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty 
years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted 
in the wilderness. 

Wandering is a very different thing from walking. 
Walking is going directly towards a goal with an ob- 
ject in view. Wandering is going round and round 
aimlessly. Alas ! many a Christian today is apparently 
as aimless in his journey through life as ever the Chil- 
dren of Israel were. 

They wandered because they murmured, because 
they rebelled, because they lusted after the things of 
the world, because they mistrusted God and refused to 
follow where He led. And these are exactly the things 
which hinder, curtail and make unfruitful the Christian 
life of a believer today. 

You have all seen a ship standing in the harber full 
rigged, sails set, cargo on board, but it never moves or 
gets anywhere because it is anchored. So a Christian 
may have all the ear marks of discipleship upon him 
and look as if he would amount to something in the 
world and yet never get anywhere because he is tied to 
his old habits, anchored by his self will, stubborn- 
ness, or lack of faith. We must cut loose from the old 
life and allow God to blow us by the winds of His 
guidance whither He will if we are to accomplish His 
purpose in our lives and carry the cargo of His Gospel 
to the distant lands. 

God never left them, and by discipline and training 
He finally brought them in; but they made it hard 
work and lost their rest and peace and possession 
through their own perverseness. 



142 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

It is an awful thing to be a child of God — redeemed 
by the precious blood of the Lamb and then to lust af- 
ter the old sins of the world and to murmur and rebel 
and disobey Him who redeemed us, and we will lose all 
our joy, all our strength, all our power in this world, 
and our crowns and rewards in the land to which we 
journey and in which we are to dwell — if we do. 

Do let us take the lesson home and learn to say 
yes to God daily, hourly, as He leads, dreadfully afraid 
that we may grieve His Holy Spirit and thus delay our 
spiritual blessing. 

God gave them certain tests after His great deliver- 
ance at the Red Sea to see if their hearts were right 
and to prove their faith and to show them how utterly 
incapable they were of accomplishing anything of 
themselves. 

Every Christian is given these tests or rather some 
tests, for only those who can stand the test can be 
used of God. 

We see this in human affairs. The engine must 
prove its capacity. The rope must prove its strength. 
The scholar must prove his knowledge. Satan tempts 
to destroy the soul. Fear him. God tests to strength- 
en the soul. Trust Him. 

Ex. 15:22-24. 

22 So Moses brought Israel from the Eed sea; and they went 
out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in 
the wilderness, and found no water. 

23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the 
waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of 
it was called Marah. 

24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall 
we drink? 

Marah — Israel's first test was that of thirst. A sim- 
ple, natural want. Just thirst. And the only natural 
supply they found was bitter. It never seems to have 
occurred to them to turn to God, asking for guidance 
and help. 



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It never seems to have occurred to them that God 
might be trying to teach them to look to Him as chil- 
dren to a father for their daily needs. It never seemed 
to have occurred to them that the God who could hold 
a whole sea back by His power might be able to pro- 
vide them with suitable drinking water during their 
journey. 

No, they seemed to expect Almighty God to supply 
their wants before they ever began to want them ; to 
hand them food and drink on a silver platter. Oh, the 
presumption, ingratitude, arrogance, meanness of those 
people, we say. And yet it is just such people as those 
that we are and that God in His love and pity and 
mercy is still testing and training and teaching, for hu- 
man nature is ever and always the same. 

Who amongst us is not guilty of accepting the gifts 
of God's power, and yet when one single thing in life 
is not to our liking, beginning to murmur and complain, 
forgetting the goodness and dwelling only on the lack. 

Before we are too hard on Israel let us put ourselves 
into their place. 

They had traveled three days without water. All 
were thirsty, cattle, children and people as well, when 
all of a sudden they come across water and rush at 
once to it to satisfy their terrible thirst. And lo ! it is 
bitter and they cannot drink it. Bitter disappointment, 
bringing bitter denunciations of Moses, which were 
really backhanded denunciations of God, who seemed 
to mock at their sufferings. 

I say seemed to mock, for God never mocks at His 
children's suffering, albeit He does let us suffer some- 
times in order to bring out some better thing and 
teach us a truer, stronger faith in His own blessed self. 
God never takes away a blessing that a greater is not 
in preparation. Never disappoints that a brighter joy 
is not in store. 

Ps. 103:13-14. 

13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth 
them that fear Him. 



144 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

14 For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are 
dust. 

Matt. 6:8. 

8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth 
what things ye have need of before ye ask Him. 

Job 23:10. 

10 But He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried 
me, I shall come forth as gold. 

Ps. 84:11. 

11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give 
grace and glory : no good thing will He withhold from them that 
walk uprightly. 

I wonder if God did not intend here to teach Israel 
that the waters of earth were bitter, unsatisfying, dis- 
appointing in order that they might desire the water 
of Life — that water which He was just waiting to give 
from the riven Rock — and that rock was Christ. 

ICor. 10:4. 

4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink; for they drank 
of that spiritual Eock that followed them: and that Eock was 
Christ. 

If earth's cisterns satisfied how many of us would 
ever cry to God for something better? Is it still not 
a truth that when earth's pleasures fade and turn to 
ashes between our teeth, then we cry unto the Lord? 
And praise God ! He hears us and answers our cry. 

Always God is merely waiting to give us something 
better than we could ever get of ourselves. He, and 
He alone, can make the bitter water sweet. 

Now how was it done? Did He speak the word? No ; 
He revealed to His servant Moses the cure. Moses had 
to be willing to have the waters healed or sweetened 
God's way or they would have remained bitter. 

The cure was a tree cut down and cast into the water. 
That of course can stand for but one thing symbolical- 
ly, namely, the only cure for the bitterness of our daily 
life is God's cure. And God's cure is the Tree of Cal- 
vary. There is healing in this tree, there is that in 



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it which taken into the daily life will cure all ills and 
sweeten all bitterness. And there is no other. 

We might naturally suppose that after this signal 
lesson of God's power and care all anxiety about food 
and drink would be at an end and we would hear no 
more complaining along that line, at least. 

Matt. 6:25,26,32-34. 

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, 
what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink: nor yet for your body, 
what ye sjiall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the 
body than raiment? 

26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do 
they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father 
feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 

32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: for your 
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; 
and all these things shall be added unto you. 

34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow 
shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the 
day is the evil thereof. 

But the heart of man is deceitful and desperately 
wicked, and if we are not fussing because we haven't 
all the sugar (sweetness) we want, we are fussing be- 
cause the flour (bread) is not to our liking. 

We forget the years of white flour and remember 
only the weeks of substitutes. 

So with Israel. As soon as they were supplied with 
water, they began to complain about the bread. 

Ex. 16:2-5. 

2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel mur- 
mured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness : 

3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God 
we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when 
we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full! 
for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this 
whole assembly with hunger. 

4 Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread 
from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a 
certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they 
will walk in my law, or no. 

5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall 
prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much 
as they gather daily. 



146 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

They even forgot about the bricks without straw and 
the overseer's lash, and decided it would have been bet- 
ter to have remained in prison with a bowl of soup 
each day (flesh pots) than be out in the fields, free, 
with God for a protector, because they couldn't see or 
smell that soup bowl being brought to them night and 
morning. Rowland Hill used to tell a story of a rich man 
and a poor man in his congregation. The rich man de- 
sired to do an act of benevolence, and so he sent a sum 
of money to a friend to be given to this poor man as he 
thought best. The friend just sent him five pounds, 
and said in the note : "This is thine ; use it wisely ; 
there is more to follow. " After a while he sent another 
five pounds, and said, "More to follow." Again and 
again he sent the money to the poor man, always with 
the cheering words, "More to follow. " How this illus- 
trates the giving of our "gracious" Provider, whose 
gifts are always accompanied with promises that cov- 
er and guarantee the future of His children ! 

But oh ! the love, the patience, the inexhaustible pa- 
tience of God. If we get nothing else out of the lessons 
let us not fail to get this. God loves us. God loved 
those murmuring, rebellious people. God cared for 
them, bore with them patiently, and lovingly taught 
and trained them, and God did accomplish in them 
what He set out to do, and He will do the same with us. 

Job 23:10. 

10 But He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried 
me, I shall come forth as gold. 

We come now to the manna. Wonderful gift of 
God. Bread from heaven. Never failing for forty 
years. Until they were within the promised land and 
had a new supply of the old corn waiting for them 
there. 

What was the manna? What did it typify? The 
description of it is as follows : 

It was white like a coriander seed. 

It was round. 



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It fell from heaven each morning. 
It lay for a short time on the dew. 
It melted when the sun was up. 

It became corrupt if kept over any day but the Sab- 
bath. 

A double quantity fell on the sixth day. 

None fell on the seventh. 

It tasted like honey cakes. 

It nourished every part of their body. 

Each person had to gather for himself. 

It satisfied ; it was pleasant to the taste ; it was God 
given ; and it was this bread or death. Starvation. 

It is very plain to see what it typified. None other 
than Christ, who proclaimed Himself as The Bread 
from heaven. 

John 6:36,49,58. 

36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen Me, and believe 
not. 

49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 
58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as 

your fathers did eat manna, and are dead : he that eateth of this 
bread shall live for ever. 

Bev. 2:17. 

17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto 
the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the 
hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone 
a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that re- 
ceiveth it. 

Just as Israel called it — Manna — What is it? 

50 later Israel said of Christ. Who is He? 
What manner of man is this? 

Matt. 8:27. 

27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, 
that even the winds and the sea obey Him ! 

The whiteness typifies the purity of Christ. 
He was sent from heaven to earth. 
He came silently as the dew falls — and rested here 
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Round because He is the eternal God from everlast- 
ing to everlasting the same. 

Each must partake of Christ for himself as he is 
given opportunity, for Christ is offered now. But no 
man knows if he fails to gather when he can how soon 
the opportunity will vanish. 

Among the many niches in the Hall of Fame at West 
Point, one niche remains unfilled by statue and if the 
visitor asks why this remains empty he is told that it 
was intended for Aaron Burr, but because he proved a 
traitor to his country the space intended for his honor 
has become his eternal disgrace. One often wonders 
whether in the building of the Eternal Temple there 
will not remain empty niches which might have been 
filled by those who lost or sold their opportunity here 
when it was just within their grasp. 

Today Christ may be had for the asking. Tomor- 
row who knows what it will bring? 

James 4:13-15. 

13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into 
such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get 
gain: 

14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For 
what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a 
little time, and then vanisheth away. 

15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and 
do this, or that. 

Today — today if ye will hear His voice, harden not 
your hearts. 

It was upon the ground, so that they must stoop to 
gather it, — on the face of the wilderness, — something 
fine, as if pounded to pieces, — fine as the hoar-frost on 
the ground. This is as the people see it, who have not 
yet tasted it, and know not what it is. It evidently does 
not look much, — has upon it marks as if of rough us- 
age ; it reminds us of the prophet's words, "No beauty 
in Him that we should desire Him." "What is it?" 
they say ; for they wist not what it was. "The world 
knew Him not." Do we? 



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There is a natural manna which on account of its 
likeness to this has been used to discredit the miracle. 
But it is not properly a food, but a drug, — an exuda- 
tion from a tree that an insect has pierced, wholly im- 
possible to confound, one would say, with the divine 
gift ; yet men do often confound it. And there are mul- 
titudes who confound Christ with common men; but 
who but Christ could say and prove it, "He that eateth 
Me, even he shall live by Me"? 

As to the gathering of the manna, we have a striking 
and solemn lesson. Every man, it was found, gath- 
ered according to his eating. There was no lack for 
any ; each got what he wanted, but not more than he 
wanted. Does not Christ meet the need we really 
have of Him? He does; but how much, then, is that 
need with each of us? 

"In one of my early pastorates," says Dr. Torrey, "I 
asked one of my people how she was getting along in 
the Christian life. She reulied, 'Very poorly. My life 
is a disgrace to me, to the church, and to Jesus Christ/ 
'Do you study your Bible every day?' I asked. 'Oh, 
no; I study it occasionally when I have a little time.' 
A little baby was lying in the perambulator near by, 
and I said, 'Suppose you should feed that baby once in 
two hours today, and once in six hours tomorrow, then 
let it go without eating at all for three or four days ; do 
you think the child would grow?' 'No/ she said, 'I 
think the child would die under the treatment.' 'And 
yet that is just the way you are treating your soul.' " 
Daily feeding upon Christ — the true manna — is the 
only means provided for spiritual growth. 

No man can store up enough spiritual life for all time. 
Daily Christ must be sought and hourly fed upon 
through the Written Word. 

And in Him we find all we need — strength, health, 
satisfaction, life, and His Word is sweet unto our 
mouths. 



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Ps. 119:103. 

103 How sweet are Thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter 
than honey to my mouth! 

It is one thing to know that we have life in Christ, to- 
gether with full forgiveness and acceptance before God, 
and it is quite another to be in habitual communion 
with Him — feeding upon Him by faith — making Him 
the exclusive food of our souls. Very many profess to 
have found pardon and peace in Jesus, who, in reality, 
are feeding upon a variety of things which have no con- 
nection with Him. They feed their minds with the 
newspapers and the varied frivolous and vapid liter- 
ature of the day. Will they find Christ there? 

A memorial of the miraculous gift of God to His hun- 
gering children during their pilgrimage here below was 
laid up for them in a golden pot in the Ark of the Cov- 
enant. 

Ex. 16:33-35. 

33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer 
full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept 
for your generations. 

34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before 
the Testimony, to be kept. 

35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until 
they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they 
came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. 

So Christ when He had finished the work given Him 
to do on this earth for us sinners, has passed into the 
Holy of Holies, and is forever before the throne in 
kingly splendor, as the gold signifies always divine glo- 
ry, a perpetual memorial there, of His life giving work 
among men. 

The Rock. Now again we would believe that Israel, 
supplied by God with bread of His providing, the bitter 
waters sweetened by a gift of His planning, would have 
nothing more to do than nightly pitch their moving 
tents a day's march nearer home singing and making 
melody in their hearts to the Lord. But again such is 
not the case. There is another fly in the ointment. 

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Ex. 17:1-7. 

1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed 
from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to 
the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim: and 
there was no water for the people to drink. 

2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give 
us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why 
chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord? 

3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people mur- 
mured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast 
brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our 
cattle with thirst? 

4 And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto 
this people? they be almost ready to stone me. 

5 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and 
take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith 
thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. 

6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in 
Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come wa- 
ter out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in 
the sight of the elders of Israel. 

7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, 
because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because 
they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not? 

Well you will say all they have to do is to tell God 
about it and He will provide. But strangely enough, 
that is all we ever have to do about any of our difficul- 
ties. And yet, do we never worry? never fret? never 
grow peevish or discouraged? And we know our 
Heavenly Father's love and power better than Israel 
did in the wilderness. 

Once more the people blame Moses for what God 
permitted. And they are ready to kill Moses for what 
they say he is responsible for. 

Moses has learned at least to turn to God in his hour 
of need, and we find him crying for help and asking 
for guidance. And the answer comes as it always will 
come if we are as Moses was, in the place of obedience, 
walking with God. And all the people are to be taught 
that Moses is only the servant ; that God is the author 
of both thirst and the water to quench the thirst. 



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And so the rock is smitten and the water, gift of God, 
gushes forth — able to supply all their need. 

They did not know, but we know today, that that 
Rock only typified the gift of the Water of Life to be 
so freely given for our thirsty souls. 

That Christ, the Rock of Ages, had to be cleft for us, 
smitten by the rod of God's wrath against sin in order 
that the dying sinner might drink and live. 

Ah there is gospel enough in Exodus and all of the 
Old Testament books if we only look under the surface 
for it. 

The same Holy Spirit who filled Christ during His 
lifetime and teaches us of Him today, wrote these fore- 
views of His work, and He alone can open our eyes to 
see Him in every book of the Bible from cover to cover. 
Mercy is offered — blessings are promised, if any lack, 
it is because they will not take. 

Christ it is whom the Spirit delights to honor. 

He is — Our Lamb slain. 

Our Shepherd guide. 

Our Light by night. 

Our Shade by day. 

Our Tree cut down 

Our Bread of life. 

Our Water of life. 

Our True Tabernacle. 

Our Sacrifice and Substitute. 

Our Great High Priest. 

Ep. 2:4-10. 

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith 
He loved us, 

5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together 
with Christ, (by grace ye are saved.) 

6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in 
heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 

7 That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches 
of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of 
yourselves: it is the gift of God: 

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10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, unto 
good works, which God hath before ordained that we should 
walk in them. 

A father was going home one winter's evening with 
his little maiden at his side, when she looked up into 
the sky and said : "Father, I am going to count the 
stars." "Very well/' he said, "go ahead." And soon he 
heard her whispering to herself: "Two hundred and 
twenty-one, two hundred and twenty-two, two hun- 
dred and twenty-three;" and then she stopped and 
sighed : "Oh, dear ! I had no idea there were so 
many !" Like that little maiden, I have often tried 
to count my mercies ; but right soon have I had to 
say: "I had no idea they were so many!" 

Phil. 4:19. 

"But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches 
in glory by Christ Jesus." 

Silently it fell, 

Whence, no man might tell, 

Like good dreams from heaven 

Unto mortals given. 

like a snowy flock 

Of strange sea-birds alighting on a shore of rock; 

Silent thus and bright 

Fell the manna in the night. 

Silent thus and bright, 

In our starless night, 

God's sweet mercy comes 

All about our homes; 

Whence, no man can see, 

In a soft shower, drifting, drifting ceaselessly, 

Till the morning light 

Falls the manna in the night. 

Thus His mercy's crown, 

Bread of Life, came down; 

At our doors it fell, 

Whence, no man might tell, 

Silent to the ground; 

Softly shining thus through the darkness all around, 

Snowy, pure, and white 

Fell the manna in the night. 



LESSON VII, 

PART II. SANCTIFICATION BY POWER. 

B. THE TABLETS. 

C. THE THEOCRACY. 



The Law Given — Broken — Restored. 
Exodus from nineteenth to twenty-fifth chapter. 

We come now to the second division of the book. 
The Legal. God's law is thundered down from Mt. 
Sinai. Up to this time all has been grace — or mercy. 
God saw their distress and pitied them. God heard 
their cries and answered them. God selected a leader 
and trained them. God defeated their enemies and de- 
livered them. God guided, fed and protected them on 
their march across the wilderness. And yet they mur- 
mured and rebelled and vexed His Holy Spirit. 

Is. 63 :9-10. 

9 In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His 
presence saved them: in His love and in His pity He redeemed 
them; and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old. 

10 But they rebelled, and vexed His Holy Spirit: therefore 
He was turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them. 

A new order of things is brought about at Sinai. 
God gives the people a perfectly clear and concise dec- 
laration of what He demands from those who are to 
be accepted by Him. 

Nothing short of perfection. For the Law is per- 
fect. 

Ps. 19:7-11. 

7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul : the testi- 
mony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. 

8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the 
commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. 

9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judg- 
ments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. 

10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine 
gold : sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 

11 Moreover by them is Thy servant warned: and in keeping 
of them there is great reward. 



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The Law — perfection. 

Testimony — sure. 

Statutes — right. 

Commandment — pure. 

Fears — clean. 

Judgments — true. 

Better than gold. 

Sweeter than honey. 

Warnings and rewards, 
and any who can keep it perfectly have a perfect right 
to enter into the presence of God. 

Only one man since the law was given has ever kept 
it perfectly — and He was the second man — the Lord 
from heaven. 

In Him and in Him alone is no sin. The Lord Jesus 
Christ, by His own keeping of the law perfectly, won 
the right to enter heaven as a man. On the Mount of 
Transfiguration the opportunity was given Him to en- 
ter heaven. Heaven opened and the prophet to whom 
the law was given stood by Him, seeing for the first 
time a man who had kept that law unbroken from be- 
ginning to end. 

But — and mark this well — while Jesus could have 
stepped into heaven from the Mount of Transfiguration 
on His own merits, He would have been obliged to go 
in alone. The race would have perished. The perfect 
life of Christ secured heaven for Himself, but it took 
the added death of the sinless one to procure the safety 
of a sinner. 

We are saved — not by the life of Christ — as many 
would have us believe today — not because He was the 
great teacher or the great prophet, or the great healer, 
or the great exempler — these facts about Him only 
saved Himself. We are saved because He laid that 
perfect, spotless character on the altar of God's wrath 
against sin and accepted the full penalty for the broken 
law to be poured out upon Him and so paid the full 



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price for every sinner as the sacrifice which perfectly- 
satisfied divine justice. 

Just as the Old Testament teaches us hundreds of 
times that because no mere man ever could or ever did 
keep this perfect law of God, he was obliged to bring 
a substitute in order to be accepted by God, that the 
fire of God's wrath against sin might fall on the inno- 
cent substitute and not directly upon the sinner. So 
we see the completion of the teaching in that the Lamb 
without spot and without blemish had to be offered on 
Calvary's Cross in our stead. That He might suffer the 
punishment for the broken law, and we who were guilty 
of the breaking of it might stand aside and be spared. 
Oh, let us never, never forget this. 

Heb. 9:13-15. 

13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an 
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of 
the flesh; 

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the 
eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your 
conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 

15 And for this cause He is the mediator of the new testament, 
that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgres- 
sions that were under the first testament, they which are called 
might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 

Heb. 10:1-22. 

1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not 
the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices 
which they offered year by year continually make the comers 
thereunto perfect. 

2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered! because 
that the worshippers once purged should have had no more con- 
science of sins. 

3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made 
of sins every year. 

4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats 
should take away sins. 

5 Wherefore when He cometh into the world, He saith, Sacri- 
fice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a body hast Thou pre- 
pared Me: 

6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast had no 
pleasure. 



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7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is 
written of Me,) to do Thy will, O God. 

8 Above when He said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offer- 
ings and offering for sin Thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleas- 
ure therein; which are offered by the law; 

9 Then said He, Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God. He taketh 
away the first, that He may establish the second. 

10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of 
the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 

11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering 
oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 

12 But this man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins for 
ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 

13 From henceforth expecting till His enemies be made His 
footstool. 

14 For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that 
are sanctified. 

15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after 
that He had said before, 

16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those 
days, saith the Lord, I will put My laws into their hearts, and in 
their minds will I write them; 

17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 

18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering 
for sin. 

19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the ho- 
liest by the blood of Jesus. 

20 By a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, 
through the veil, that is to say, His flesh; 

21 And having an high priest over the house of God : 

22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of 
faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and 
our bodies washed with pure water. 

IPet. 1:18-20. 

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with 
corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversa- 
tion received by tradition from your fathers; 

19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without 
blemish and without spot: 

20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the 
world, but was manifest in these last times for you. 

We may then readily ask why was the law given if 
no man could keep it, and only those who did keep 
it could be saved? Why was it given? And God gives 
us the answer in 



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Gal. 3:24,25. 

24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto 
Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 

25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a 
schoolmaster. 

Gal. 4:4,5. 

4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth 
His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 

5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might re- 
ceive the adoption of sons. 

Eom. 8:1-4. 

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are 
in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made 
me free from the law of sin and death. 

3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through 
the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful 
flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 

4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, 
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 

This tells us why the law was given. That we might 
know our exceeding sinfulness. That we might see our 
utter weakness. That we might learn that Christ alone 
can save us from the penalty of the broken law. 

Rom. 3:19-28. 

19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith 
to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be 
stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 

20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be 
justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 

21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is mani- 
fested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 

22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus 
Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no 
difference : 

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 

24 Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption 
that is in Christ Jesus: 

25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith 
in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of 
sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 

26 To declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He 
might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 

27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of 
works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 



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28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith with- 
out the deeds of the law. 

In other words, the Law is God's mirror to show us 
our exceeding sinfulness and right beside the mirror in 
love and in mercy He has opened His crystal fountain, 
drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and sinners plunged be- 
neath that flood lose all their guilty stains. 

There is an old parable of a man who once met an 
angel and was asked his opinion of an approaching 
neighbor. The picture given was not a pleasant one (I 
wonder if the opportunity were given us how many of 
us would seize it in order to score a point in our neigh- 
bor's disfavor) the neighbor being designated as sly, 
deceitful, underhand, self-opinionated, etc. All the 
time the description was being given the man and the 
angel were drawing nearer the person described until 
the angel drew the man's attention to the fact that 
they had all the time been approaching a mirror and 
the description given was a detailed photograph of the 
man himself. 

This is the mirror of the Law. If this were all we 
would be in despair, but as we said before, the mirror 
only reveals — it can never cleanse, and God in His mer- 
cy has set up a cleansing fountain beside the mirror of 
the law, where if one will he can wash and be clean. 

Is. 1:16-18. 

16 Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings 
from before Mine eyes; cease to do evil; 

17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, 
judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: 
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; 
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 

Rev. 7:13-14. 

13 And one of the elders answered saying unto me, What are 
these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? 

14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, 
These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have 
washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the 
Lamb. 



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Be v. 1:5,6. 

5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the 
first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the 
earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in 
His own blood. 

6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Fa- 
ther; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 

There are two mountain peaks which stand over 
against one another in God's Book. The dreadful moun- 
tain of Sinai, whence thundered the law. Read the aw- 
ful account of that picture of God's wrath against sin 
— Ex. 19th chap. — and the majesty of the Law. But be- 
side that mountain God places Calvary. Calvary drew 
all the fire, all the thunderings, all the death dealing 
instruments of wrath and made a new meeting place 
between God and the sinner. Today one only has to 
choose which mountain he will ascend. Will he ap- 
proach God by law or by blood? There is no middle 
way. 

Heb. 12:18-29. 

18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, 
and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and 
tempest, 

19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which 
voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spo- 
ken to them any more: 

20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And 
if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or 
thrust through with a dart: 

21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly 
fear and quake:) 

22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the 
living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable com- 
pany of angels. 

23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which 
are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the 
spirits of just men made perfect. 

24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the 
blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of 
Abel. 

25 See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh. For if they 
escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more 
shall not we escape, if we turn away from Him that speaketh 
from heaven: 



164 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

26 Whose voice then shook the earth : but now He hath prom- 
ised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also 
heaven. 

27 And this word, Yet once more, signiiieth the removing of 
those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that 
those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 

28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, 
let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with 
reverence and godly fear: 

29 For our God is a consuming fire. 

At Sinai the law was given, not to be kept there, but to 
reveal that the natural man could not keep it. The cer- 
emonial offerings and sacrifices were an amplification 
of the Passover redemption even as it was of the sacri- 
fices offered at Eden's gates. The animal sacrifices 
spelled on one side the guilt and helplessness of man, 
and on the other the remedy provided by God — and the 
remedy in one word was Substitution. The constant 
repetition of these sacrifices proclaimed them but as 
temporary expedients, holding in the necessity of their 
frequent use, their deeper meaning. Every day made it 
evident that only man could be a substitute for man ; 
this man must be like the animal victim a firstling and 
spotless. 

Our Lord Jesus Christ was a firstling in the immense 
sense that He was the first in a new and distinct kind 
of humanity. He became a substitute because the law 
had no claim on Him, and the law had no claim on Him 
because He was spotless — sinless. He came to redeem 
man on precisely the same ground on which man was 
lost — the "one for the many." One man sinned and 
plunged the many to death. A second man, a new and 
distinct head for the race, met the guilt of the first 
man, bore his sin out of the realms of present judgment 
and brought in grace by reconciling the world to God. 
He is offered both as a sacrifice and life-giver ; but He 
must be personally claimed as was the sin-offering of 
old. 

Not only must the substitute be man, he must be 
very God, as only God can atone to God, only that 



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which is equal can meet and satisfy that which is equal. 
The sin-sacrificed Lord, the Son came into the pre- 
pared body to offer it according to the one true sacri- 
fice of old and the sacrifice finds its infinite value nei- 
ther in the length or degree of sacrificial suffering, but 
in the infinite personally offered. 

Now let us look at the law closely and see in what it 
consisted. 

It is composed of the greater Commandments Thou 
shalt and Thou shalt not and has a codicil or by-laws, 
many of which were superadded and transmitted 
through Moses for the governing of the people to the 
minutest detail of their lives. Notice first that there is 
absolutely no provision for failure made. It is all or 
nothing. The whole law or — a broken thing. 

Jas. 2:10. 
10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in 

one point, he is guilty of all. 

One hole in a bowl unfits it for its purpose. One 
crack in a pitcher lets the water out. One flaw in the 
character mars the perfection which God requires. 

After all, there is no such thing as a big sinner and 
a little sinner in the sight of God. To sin at all, even in 
the minutest point, is to constitute oneself guilty as a 
sinner before God, for whosoever shall keep the whole 
law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all 
(James 2:10). Even so is it with the small deeds of 
good that we do, the faltering word of helpfulness that 
we speak, the 'widow's mite' that we cast into God's 
treasury — these, small and insignificant though they 
may seem in the eyes of man, light though they may 
appear in the balances of earth, unworthy of notice 
though they may be in the esteem of man, these are of 
great value in the estimation of God. The spark of 
fire is as real fire as the flames that belch from Vesuvi- 
us. The dewdrop that trembles on the leaf is as real 
water as is the mighty torrents of Niagara. 



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MY TASK. 
To love some one more dearly every day, 
To help a wandering child to find his way, 
To ponder o'er a noble thought, and pray, 
And smile when evening falls, 
This is my task. 

To follow truth as blind men long for light, 
To do my best from dawn of day till night, 
To keep my heart fit for this holy sight, 
And answer when He calls, 
This is my task. 

Through love to light! Oh, wonderful the way, 
That leads from darkness to the perfect day, 
From darkness and from sorrow, from sorrow of the night, 
To morning that comes singing, comes singing o'er the sea; 
Through love to light, through light, O God to Thee, Who art the 
Love of Love, th' eternal Light of Light. 

It is true — and it is the greatest comfort that it is 
true — that the giving of a glass of water can please 
God, and the sweeping of a room can glorify Him. 
The man that brought his offering to the tabernacle 
was not compelled to bring a bullock ; he could bring a 
turtle-dove ; but it had to be 'without blemish and with- 
out spot.' " 

The ten Commandments then make a perfect, com- 
plete whole law, covering all parts of a man's life in re- 
lation to God, and are divided first into laws regarding 
his attitude to God, and secondly into laws regarding 
his attitude towards his fellowmen. 

Why ten? Because ten is the Scriptural number of 
"Responsibility in regard to Testimony." God gave 
the whole testimony ; man assumed the whole respon- 
sibility of keeping it. 

Numbers are most significant in the Scriptures, al- 
ways testifying to the same truth wherever found. The 
whole structure of Scripture is numerical — one of the 
most patent proofs of its divine origin and plan. 

Only one author could have watched from begin- 
ning to end that the numbers used generations apart by 
many men, would always stand for the same meaning 
or truth — Let us see. 



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CHART 
NUMERICAL, STRUCTURE 

of the 

SCRIPTURES 



Number 
One 


Type 

God 

1 The Unit Sovereignty — Will 
! Mark 12:32 Deut. 6:4 Zech. 14:9 
\ Three persons in one Godhead 
Illus. A triangle 


Two 


1 Son 
' Second Person 

Number of witnesses 
In a good sense Addition 
I In a bad sense Division 


Three 


Spirit 

Third Person Solidity — Trinity 
Man: body, soul, spirit 
Family: father, mother, child 
Completeness — Eesurrection 


Four 


Earth 

Cube — Weakness Divisible 

4th Commandment and 4th petition of 

Lord's Prayer refer to earth 
4 elements: fire, water, air, earth 
4 points of compass 4 cherubim 
4 seasons 4 world powers 



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Grace 
i 

Five • Progress but incompleteness 

5th day life in sea — none on land 

i 5 toes 5 fingers 

| 5th seal Martyr's waiting 

f Grace but not glory 



? Man 

Six f Satanic Apostasy Weakness 

\ 6th hour darkest before dawn 

| 6th epistle tells of darkest hour in 

i church history 

i 6th seal — Eev. — death 

? 6th vial unclean spirits 

Nebuchadnezzar's image 60 ft. high, 6 ft. 

| wide 

f Anti-Christ's number 666 — the multiple 

| of apostasy 

f Christ crucified on 6th day 



• Perfect 

Seven ? Number of dispensation Sacred 

f fullness 

• 7 days in the week 

| 7 candlesticks — Perfect light 

? 7 stars — Complete Church 

4 May be also in an evil sense — as 

i 7 vials of wrath 

| 7 evil spirits 

• 7 heads of the beast 
f 

f 

i Resurrection 

Eight I A new beginning 

f 8th day begins a new week 

i 8th day circumcision for Jewish child 



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8th person Noah 

8th day Christ arose 

8th son of Jesse (David) established a 

new order 
8th year Jews sowed the ground for a 

new beginning 



God Supreme 

I At the cross there was darkness from the 
f 6th hour (Man's number) until the 

| 9th hour (God supreme) 

The hour of prayer 



Nine 



Ten 



Full Responsibility 

Number of worldly completeness 

10 fingers and toes — Complete body of 
man 

10 horns on final evil beast 

Christ showed Himself 10 times 

after His resurrection 
10 plagues 

10 Tribes of Israel hidden 
10 Commandments given 
10 virgins tested 
10 days tribulation for Smyrna 



Eleven 



Tribes divided- 



Disorder 

-disorganized 



Twelve 



Governmental Perfection 

12 months 12 apostles 12 tribes 

12 signs of the zodiac 12 gates 

12 stars in crown of woman 

12 fruits on Tree of Life 

12 foundations in New Jerusalem 



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Rebellion 

Apostasy — Gen. 14:4. Ishmael 

was the rebellious child. — Gen. 17:25 



Thirteen 



Thirty 



Divine Order 

3 (trinity) times 10, (full responsibility) 
Ark 30 cubits high 

Priests 30 years old when called to service 
Joseph 30 years old when called by Pharaoh 
Christ sold for 30 pieces of silver 



Full Testing 

Forty ? Moses 40 years in Pharaoh's Court 

i 40 years in desert 

40 years in wilderness 
Israel 40 years wandering 
Christ tempted 40 days 
Christ seen 40 days after resurrection 
Paul received 40 stripes 



£ Full Salvation 

Fifty * Grace finished Jubilee 

j Noah's Ark 50 cubits wide, 

• Saved all in it 

i The number 50 is repeated again and 

• again in Tabernacle and Temple, 
whose walls were Salvation 

? Every 50 years was a Jubilee for Is- 

l rael, all property reverting to its 

I rightful owner 

f The Feast of Pentecost came 50 days 

| after Passover 

f The Holy Spirit descended 50 days af- 

| ter Christ's Ascension 

f The number 50 is never found before 

I the Ark (the first clear type of 



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| Salvation in Christ) and never 

• after Pentecost (the last clear 

f type of Salvation) 

The Perfect Numbers are 3 — 7 — 10 — 12 multiplied = 
2520 — Chronoligical perfection, or 7 times 360 = 2520. 

In giving the Ten Commandments we are told that 
"God spake all these words." 

A stenographer for a business house by changing one 
word altered the entire meaning of his employer's let- 
ter., In place of writing as dictated "We can fill your 
order of the 17th" — he wrote "We cannot fill your or- 
der of the 17th." 

If the altering of a word or even a letter so com- 
pletely changes the meaning of a message, do you not 
suppose Almighty God watched that every word writ- 
ten was as He intended it to be? He says so — 
Matt. 5:18. 

18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one 
jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be 
fulfilled. 

Luke 16:17. 

17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle 
of the law to fail. 

Verbal inspiration is taught as we read "God spake 
all these words." 

First — Attitude to God — in thought, word and deed. 
First — Second — Third — Fourth Commandments. 

Ex. 20:1-11. 

1 And God spake all these words, saying, 

2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the 
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. 

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any 
likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the 
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: 
for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity 



172 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth gen- 
eration of them that hate Me ; 

6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, 
and keep My commandments. 

7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; 
for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His came 
in vain. 

8 Eemember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; 

10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in 
it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daugh- 
ter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor 
thy stranger that is within thy gates: 

11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, 
and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore 
the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 

Second — Attitude toward fellowmen — in regard to 
parents — human life — marriage — rights of property. 
Fifth — Sixth — Seventh — Eighth commandments : 

Ex. 20:12-15. 

12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be 
long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 

13 Thou shalt not kill. 

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 

15 Thou shalt not steal. 

Third — While the last two, the ninth and tenth, 

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not 
covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maid- 
servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neigh- 
bour's. 

deal directly with our mental attitude towards others, 
our words and our thoughts must accord with God's 
law. All the additional laws are merely amplifications, 
expansions and illustrations of these ten principles, and 
even the New Commandment which Christ gave em- 
braces them all. 

John 13^34. 

34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one an- 
other; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 

That the mere keeping of them to the letter without 



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subscribing to them in the heart is a virtual breaking 
of them Christ also explains, only emphasizing what 
God has everywhere in His Word revealed that it is not 
in the heart of man to keep them. 

Matt. 5:27,28. 

27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou 
shalt not commit adultery. 

28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to 
lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his 
heart. 

All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. 
And to come short is to miss the mark; and to miss 
the mark is to fail. 

It is told of a man in County Cork that he was head 
and shoulders above any man there and when recruits 
were sought for the Horse Guards of London, during 
Queen Victoria's reign, all his friends urged him to en- 
list, being sure he would fill all the requirements. So 
when the recruiting office was opened the biggest man 
in County Cork marched confidently up to the table 
offering his services. He was told that no one could be 
accepted who did not come up to all the requirements, 
conditions, measurements, etc. and that he would have 
to be put through all the tests. So he was weighed, 
pounded, pinched, and measured, and lo and behold 
when his height was taken he was half an inch short of 
the Queen's standard. Half an inch short of perfec- 
tion and the biggest man in County Cork was too little 
for the Queen's escort. So we may be the biggest toad 
in the puddle of the world but we still fall short of the 
requirements of a saint in heaven. Heaven's standards 
are so much greater than earth's, that mere humanity 
no matter how good falls short of perfection. One 
man and one alone came up in all points to these re- 
quirements and that was the man Christ Jesus. 

We cannot too earnestly and too often emphasize 
the fact that when God offered this law to the children 
of Israel, under which they must henceforth live, that 



174 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

they made the bitter mistake of their lives in accepting 
it. 

Ex. 19:8. 

8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the 
Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of 
the people unto the Lord. 

How could they do it? They had never done a thing 
God wanted them to do yet. How could they begin to 
perfectly obey Him now? Why in the world didn't 
they cry for mercy not justice? God delighteth in mer- 
cy. He had been merciful all along. Now He tests 
them to see if they appreciate it and are willing to let 
Him continue to teach them by faith in place of by 
rule. But no. Human pride always thinks it can please 
God by itself, and so we attempt again and again to 
keep at least some of the law. And before we ever get 
done reading it we are transgressing it at some point, 
or other. 

Before Israel ever received it — let alone started to 
keep it — they were dancing round a golden calf by 
which they were insulting the Law Giver they had 
solemnly promised to perfectly obey. 

Ex. 32:1-10,19. 

1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down 
out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto 
Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go be- 
fore us; for as for this Moses, the maji that brought us up out 
of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 

2 And Aaron said unto them. Break off the golden earrings, 
which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your 
daughters, and bring them unto me. 

3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were 
in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 

4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a 
graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, 
These be thy gods; O Israel, which brought thee up out of the 
land of Egypt. 

5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and 
Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the 
Lord. 



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6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt 
offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down 
to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. 

7 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy 
people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have 
corrupted themselves: 

8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I com- 
manded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have 
worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These 
be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the 
land of Egypt. 

9 And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, 
behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 

10 Now therefore let Me alone, that My wrath may wax hot 
against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make 
of thee a great nation. 

19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, 
that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed 
hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them be- 
neath the mount. 

Sinners one and all — We as well as Israel — with Cal- 
vary's Cross above us, grow weary of waiting for the 
coming of our Moses, who has disappeared in the cloud, 
and spend our time in eating and drinking, in worship- 
ping the golden calf (dollar) or some god who takes 
God's rightful place in our lives. And so all the world 
— Jew and Gentile — stands condemned by the Law. 

We see then that the Law was broken by the people 
before ever it was broken by Moses' hand. He only 
did before their eyes what they had already done in 
their hearts, and judgment fell. 

In an hour they were made to drink of the fruits of 
their sin and 3,000 perished there, an awful warning to 
the nation of the divine justice which will in no wise 
wink at sin. 

Even Christ has to keep the law. Even though He 
as God was the author of the law, yet when He came 
in the likeness of sinful man and for sinners He was 
not exempt, but was judged by it and pronounced 
guiltless. 

That some other way of approach had to be found 
if these guilty ones were ever to draw near to God is 



176 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

foreshadowed in the end of the 20th chapter, where the 
broken law is met by a divinely appointed altar. So we 
see God showing mercy when the people demanded 
justice, and in love and pity providing the altar of sacri- 
fice which would meet the requirements of the law 
when Christ would lay down His perfect life there as 
the substituted victim for us sinners. 

In the next chapter we again see His work fore- 
shadowed in the law for the bondservant. When the 
bondservant willingly submitted to be scarred for life 
because of his love for his master and his own, his 
sacrifice was to be accepted and by his scars all were to 
be kept as one family. So Christ became our willing 
bondsman, accepting the scars which testified to His 
love for His Father and by which He redeemed us. 

The verses 30-35 of chapter 32 teach us that no mat- 
ter how willing one may be to make an atonement for 
the sin of another it is impossible. Moses was a sinner 
as well as Israel, and a sinner cannot save a sinner. It 
takes a sinless one. 

The Altar — the Bondsman — the Tabernacle all 
taught that God would Himself provide one who could 
make atonement, but it could not be man's selection. 
The substitute could only be chosen by God. 

Ps. 49:7. 

7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor 
give to God a ransom for him: 

Job 9:33. 

33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay 
his hand upon us both. 

Ps. 89:19. 

19 Then Thou spakest in vision to Thy holy one, and saidst, I 
have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one 
chosen out of the people. 

Jer. 50:34. 

34 Their Eedeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is His name: 
He shall throughly plead their cause, that He may give rest to 
the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. 



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Rev. 5:8-12. 

8 And when He had taken the book, the four beasts and four 
and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one 
of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the 
prayers of saints. 

9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take 
the book, and to open the seals thereof : for Thou wast slain, and 
hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and 
tongue, and people, and nation; 

10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and 
we shall reign on the earth. 

11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round 
about the throne and the beasts and the elders : and the number 
of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of 
thousands ; 

12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain 
to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and 
honour, and glory, and blessing. 

What God has done satisfies divine justice; where- 
fore we have peace with God and can approach into His 
Presence forgiven, cleansed, justified, and will one day 
be made like Him who is our Head. Oh, what a won- 
derful Saviour! 



LESSON VIM, 

PART II. SANCTIFICATION BY POWER. 
D. THE TABERNACLE. 



The Tabernacle. 

Exodus 28:1-21. 

1 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons 
with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may min- 
ister unto Me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, 
Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. 

2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother 
for glory and for beauty. 

3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I 
have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make 
Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto 
Me in the priest's office. 

4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a breast- 
plate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, 
and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron 
thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto Me in the 
priest's office. 

5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, 
and fine linen. 

6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of pur- 
ple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work. 

7 It shall have the two shoulder pieces thereof joined at the 
two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together. 

8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall 
be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of 
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 

9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the 
names of the children of Israel: 

10 Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names 
of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth. 

11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings 
of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of 
the children of Israel : thou shalt make them to be set in ouches 
of gold. 

12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of 
the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: 
and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two 
shoulders for a memorial. 

13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold; 

14 And two chains of pure gold at the ends ; of wreathen work 
shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the 
ouches. 



182 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cun- 
ning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of 
gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined 
linen, shalt thou make it. 

16 Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the 
length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof. 

17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows 
of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a car- 
buncle: this shall be the first row. 

18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a 
diamond. 

19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. 

20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: 
they shall be set in gold in their inclosings. 

21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of 
Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a 
signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the 
twelve tribes. 

Ex. 29:30-43. 

30 And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on 
seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congrega- 
tion to minister in the holy place. 

31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe 
his flesh in the holy place. 

32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and 
the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of 
the congregation. 

33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement 
was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them : but a stranger 
shall not eat thereof, because they are holy. 

34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the 
bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the re- 
mainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy. 

35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, accord- 
ing to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days 
shalt thou consecrate them. 

36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering 
for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast 
made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify 
it. 

37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and 
sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever 
toucheth the altar shall be holy. 

38 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two 
lambs of the first year day by day continually. 

39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other 
lamb thou shalt offer at even: 



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40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with 
the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of 
an hin of wine for a drink offering. 

41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do 
thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and ac- 
cording to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an 
offering made by fire unto the Lord. 

42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your 
generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 
before the Lord: where I will meet you, to speak there unto 
thee. 

43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the 
tabernacle shall be sanctified by My glory. 

When the Holy Spirit dwells at length on any one 
subject in the Word we may be sure it is of very special 
significance and in some way teaches something very 
important about the Lord Jesus Christ. He it is whom 
the Spirit delights to honor. 

John 16:12-15. 

12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear 
them now. 

13 Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide 
you into all truth : for He shall not speak of Himself ; but what- 
soever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you 
things to come. 

14 He shall glorify Me : for He shall receive of Mine, and shall 
shew it unto you. 

15 All things that the Father hath are Mine: therefore said 
I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall shew it unto you. 

When therefore we find 16 chapters, or one-fourth of 
the Book of Exodus, devoted to the details of the Tab- 
ernacle, we may know that it must set forth a very 
important truth regarding Christ. 

And so it is. After the broken law God steps in in 
grace once more, and plans, or rather reveals, to His 
sinning people, His plan whereby their sin may be 
washed away, their iniquity forgiven and intercourse 
with Himself again established. Hence the command 
for the building of the Tabernacle, or Meeting place 
between God and man, every detail of which was or- 
dained of God to be followed and carried out by Moses 
and the people. 



184 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

While we have set forth the typology of the Taber- 
nacle in a former lesson in "How to Study the Bible," 
we will review it here enough merely to get the teach- 
ing securely in our minds. 

We see the only meeting place between a Holy 
God and a lost sinner is in Jesus Christ. He is the 
way ; hence every minutest detail of the Tabernacle 
must in some way refer to Him. 

And so we see in the materials used, in the colors 
selected, in the vessels chosen, in the garments of the 
priests, in the arrangement of the furniture, in the pro- 
portions of the structure, in the designs upon the cur- 
tains, and the kind and order of the sacrifices, and the 
memorials to be kept in the holy place, up to the very 
Ark and Mercy Seat for which all was built, some part 
of Christ's character, service and sacrifice divinely por- 
trayed. 

The Tabernacle, like Christ, was God's gift to man. 
Man had nothing to do with it but accept it. The met- 
als used stood the test of fire. So Christ's character 
stood the test of the fire of God's wrath. 

We see in the very arrangement of the seven articles 
of furniture the figure of the Cross. Do you think this 
an accident? It could not be. The Holy Spirit depicts 
the work of Christ in even such minute details. He 
delights to hide some message of Christ, for the earn- 
est seeker after truth, to discover as a happy surprise. 

In the Tabernacle, we have in this order, seven ar- 
ticles of furniture, and seven we have seen to be the 
number of completeness. 

1. The Altar of Burnt Offering. 

2. The Laver 

3. The Table of Shew Bread 

4. The Candlestick 

5. The Altar of Incense 

6. The Ark of the Covenant 

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And in their relative positions, if you draw a line 
from the Altar of Burnt Offering to the Ark of the Cov- 
enant, and across from the Table of Shew Bread to the 
Candlestick, you have the form of the Cross. The Lamb 
of God slain before the foundation of the world. 

The colors used are also significant as we have al- 
ready seen. White for purity ; Blue for heaven ; Scar- 
let for blood; Purple for royalty; Silver for redemp- 
tion ; Gold for divine glory. All point to the coat of 
many colors worn by our Joseph, Jesus, God's Best 
Beloved Son. 

Copper was used for the sacrificial part of the build- 
ing; gold for the worshipful. 

So we see Christ's body bore our sins on the Cross 
and by suffering and sacrifice He Himself became the 
victim which died in place of the sinner. And He in 
His life, death and resurrection receives the worship 
of men. 

The Bread and the Light and the Incense in the 
Holy Place portray Him as the Bread of Life — the 
Light of the World — and the High Priest making con- 
stant intercession for us. Incense always represents 
prayer before God which ascends to His throne as a 
sweet savour. 

In the Holy of Holies we see the Ark, containing the 
unbroken table of the Law, Aaron's rod which bud- 
ded, and the golden pot of manna. So Christ alone kept 
the Law of God perfectly. 

In the rod we see the divinely appointed High Priest, 
having life in Himself, and in the manna we see the 
Bread of Heaven, laid up through all eternity for those 
who come unto God by Him. 

Over all was the Mercy Seat, blood sprinkled, guard- 
ed by the cherubim, and covered by the Shekinah glo- 
ry. Glory of an ever-present and perfectly satisfied 
God. 

Here we see Christ as Our High Priest, who has 
passed into the heavens, bearing His own blood on His 



186 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

own hands, to make reconciliation for the sins of the 
people, thereby becoming the Mercy Seat for us. 

This is a thing the angels desire to look into, and 
cherubim are always represented as guarding the di- 
vine symbols of God in government. 

While the Shekinah glory teaches God's approval 
and satisfaction in the work of His own Son. 

IPet. 1:8-13. 

8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye 
see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and 
full of glory: 

9 Eeceiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your 
souls. 

10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched 
diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto 
you: 

11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ 
which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the 
sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 

12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but 
unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported 
unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with 
the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the an- 
gels desire to look into. 

13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and 
hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at 
the revelation of Jesus Christ; 

Heb. 2:16,17. 

16 For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but 
He took on Him the seed of Abraham. 

17 Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like un- 
to His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high 
priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for 
the sins of the people. 

Heb. 9:11,12. 

11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to 
come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with 
hands, that is to say, not of this building; 

12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own 
blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained 
eternal redemption for us. 

Bev. 1:4-7. 

4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia : Grace be unto 
you, and peace, from Him which is, and which was, and which 



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is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before His 
throne ; 

5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the 
first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the 
earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins 
in His own blood. 

6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Fa- 
ther; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 

7 Behold, He cometh with clouds ; • and every eye shall see 
Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the 
earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen. 

The same cloud, or Shekinah glory which received 
Him out of the disciples' sight on Olivet, will be seen 
again when He cometh in His glory with all the holy 
angels to judge the earth in righteousness, and restore 
the kingdom to His Father, who gave Him. Then the 
Blessing of God will rest on the earth forever. The 
visible presence of Jehovah's approval and satisfac- 
tion in the accomplished work of His dear Son. 

In type we are today at the place in the Tabernacle 
worship where the High Priest, having made atone- 
ment for the sins of the people, passed into the Holy 
of Holies bearing the blood ; and there before God made 
intercession for the sins of the people. 

So Christ has been sacrificed for us and has rent the 
veil (type of His flesh), has entered into the presence 
of God, where He ever liveth, to make intercession 
for the people. 

Heb. 7:24-26. 

24 But this man, because He continueth ever, hath an un- 
changeable priesthood. 

25 Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost 
that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make in- 
tercession for them. 

26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, 
undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the 
heavens : 

Heb. 1:3. 

3 Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express im- 
age of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His 
power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on 
the right hand of the Majesty on high; 



188 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Heb. 10:12,13. 

12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins for 
ever sat down on the right hand of God; 

13 From henceforth expecting till His enemies be made His 
footstool. 

The next act of the High Priest was to return after 
the fire of God had fallen, consuming as accepting the 
sacrifice. And when the High Priest reappeared the 
waiting people rent the air with a great, mighty shout 
of joy, because all for which the Tabernacle stood had 
been accepted by God and they were free and a new 
year lay before them. 

So we wait in prayer and hope until the moment 
when our High Priest will re-appear, and then — the 
earth will be rent with a mighty shout of joy, such as 
has never been heard on earth or in heaven, and then 
will be accomplished all for which Christ died — a new 
heaven and a new earth established by His power, 
wherein dwelleth righteousness. 

2 Pet. 3:12-14. 

12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, 
wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the 
elements shall melt with fervent heat? 

13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new 
heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 

14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be 
diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and 
blameless. 

IThess. 1:10. 

10 And to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from 
the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. 

Phil. 3:20. 

20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we 
look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Heb. 9:28. 

28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many: and 
unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time 
without sin unto salvation. 

We have become familiar during the war with the 
expression of Der Tag or The Day. The day Germany 



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meant to celebrate as conqueror of the world, The day 
towards which she moved earth and hell. The day of 
the fulfillment of her covetous desires. It sounds as 
if made in Germany or hell. The day of Satan's tri- 
umph. Well, it failed. But God has a Day — a Day to- 
wards which all creation moves. 

A Day in which His Son will be revealed from heav- 
en in clouds of glory with attendant armies of angels. 
A Day in which Satan shall be forever defeated and 
cast out and Jesus shall be crowned King of Kings and 
Lord of Lords and it is called The Day of The Lord. 
Study for yourselves all that God has to say about it. 

Col. 3 :4. 

4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also 
appear with Him in glory. 

This is The Day for which all Creation waits. The 
Day of Christ's Second Coming. For not until then 
will the work which God has given Him to do be ac- 
complished and the whole Creation redeemed from the 
curse of sin. 

But in this lesson let us look more closely at the High 
Priest's office — His robes and His work — for all again 
was minutely patterned by God and for a purpose. 

First, the priests were separated from the people — 
set aside for this work by God. So all His people today 
become priests unto God — a separate holy people set 
aside to do a particular work in the world for Him. The 
priest's work was ordained of God and was for wor- 
ship and service. So ours — cleansing, worship, then 
service. 

The articles of dress were divinely appointed for glo- 
ry and beauty. So the church today, the only true 
body of priests — are to be clothed in the garments of 
beauty and praise — all ordained of God and gifts from 
Him. 

Is. 61:3. 

3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them 
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of 



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praise for the spirit of heaviness ; that they might be called trees 
of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be 
glorified. 

Ps. 45:13. 

13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is 
of wrought gold. 

If God was so particular about the clothing of His 
priests, then do you not suppose He is just as inter- 
ested in our apparel today and that we can please or 
grieve Him according to our actual clothing? Surely 
it is so. Christ Himself tells us so, and also tells us 
not to be unduly anxious about it. 

Matt. 6:25-33. 

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, 
what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, 
what ye shall put on. Is not, the life more than meat, and the 
body than raiment? 

26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do 
they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father 
feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 

27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto 
his stature? 

28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies 
of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 

29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory 
was not arrayed like one of these. 

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to 
day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much 
more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, 
What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 

32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your 
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteous- 
ness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 

To worry as we pray is to insult God. It is like go- 
ing to a wealthy friend who has told us to come to 
him for financial help in any amount at any time we 
need ; and, asking him for a check for a certain amount, 
and being freely given that check, saying to him as 
we accept it, "I don't know whether this check is good 
or not, but I'll try it and see." Such an asking and re- 



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ceiving would not indicate much confidence in our 
friend, and that is just the attitude we show toward 
God when we pray to Him with worry or anxiety in 
our hearts. He has promised to supply every need of 
ours (Phil. 4:19). Are God's promises to be taken 
"with a grain of salt?" Is God treacherous? Or, while 
God means well, is He sometimes unable to do what 
He means to do? Have we realized that we are asking 
these strange questions about God, in our hearts, eve- 
ry time we worry? — if indeed we are children of God 
through having believed on Jesus Christ as Saviour. If 
God keeps His word, and is always able to keep His 
word, and we really believe this, that is the death- 
knell of worry. And what a glorious, radiant life it is 
when, as little children taking our Father's word, we 
find that we may in nothing be anxious, but in every- 
thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let 
our requests be made known unto God, while the peace 
of God, which passeth all understanding, guards our 
hearts and our thoughts in Christ Jesus. 

And it is very significant to notice that God first of 
all required modesty in His presence and put the ban 
forever on nakedness on the part of the people when 
He ordered linen breeches, under garments for decen- 
cy's sake. 

Ex. 28:42. 

42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their 
nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach. 

Even the altar was not to be elevated or approached 
by steps lest immodesty result from the attitude. 

Ex. 20:25,26. 

25 And if thou wilt make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not 
build it of hewn stone : for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou 
hast polluted it. 

26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy 
nakedness be not discovered thereon. 

The higher a man tries to climb in order to reach 
God the greater the exposure of his real nakedness. 



192 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Satan it was in the garden who stripped man of his 
covering when sin entered in, and God it was who 
placed His ban on the exposure of the human body- 
when He slew an animal to provide a covering, and 
hid the shame Satan had brought upon us. 

The art which applauds the nude, the fashion which 
diminishes clothing have their origin and source from 
the pit. 

God clothes the naked, and it took the blood of Christ 
to procure a covering sufficient in the eyes of God. Do 
let us learn God's mind on these matters and ask His 
will in our dressing and our furnishing. All are signs 
of our union with Him. 

Next we see that the articles of dress were enumer- 
ated, designed and placed in order. They were 

1. The Linen Breeches 

2. The Breastplate 

3. The Ephod 

4. The Robe 

5. The Embroidered Coat 

6. The Mitre, or Crown 

7. The Girdle 

The colors and materials you will see were the same 
used in the hangings throughout the Tabernacle, and 
of course typify the same things. 

The High Priest's garments represented the Lord 
Jesus in His High Priestly Office. 

1. The Ephod was a woven piece of cloth hanging 
front and back from the shoulders by two onyx stones, 
and was to support the Breastplate. 

The names of the 12 Tribes were engraved on these 
shoulder stones, and from them hung golden chains 
which held the Breastplate in place. 

2. The Breastplate was composed of 4 rows of 3 
precious stones each, making a stone for each of the 



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12 Tribes, the name of each tribe being engraved upon 
a single stone. 

3. The Robe was all of blue, denoting its heavenly 
character and hung to the ankles, where it was edged 
with embroidered pomegranates and golden bells. 
Thus the High Priest could be heard as He ministered 
in and out amongst the people. 

4. The Embroidered Coats went under the robe 
and were all gloriously wrought as well as the Girdle. 

5. The Mitre, or Crown was of pure gold and en- 
graved with the sacred legend of his high office, Holi- 
ness to the Lord. 

Our High Priest wears His Crown by right of His 
own holiness, and we who minister in His name re- 
ceive His name in our foreheads, and are to be vessels 
cleansed and meet for the Master's use. 

We too must have the legend on all we do — even to 
the pots and pans, as will be done in reality some day. 
Holiness to the Lord. 

Zech. 14:20,21. 

20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, 
HOLINESS UNTO THE LOED, and the pots in the Lord's house 
shall be like the bowls before the altar. 

21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness 
unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come 
and take of them, and seethe therein : and in that day there shall 
be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts. 

We can well see the teaching here when the High 
Priest was arrayed for the performance of his holy 
office. 

He carried the people on his shoulder — place of 
strength — and over his heart — place of love and sym- 
pathy. 

In position God arranged them. Each was given his 
special precious stone, (choice color), each his place 
amongst the others. So God chooses for us. How we 
should shine and glorify Him and where we shall stand 
in relationship to others. 



194 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

Those of our immediate family and friends are chos- 
en to bring out more beauty for Him. 

Each one had his name and his place engraved there 
forever. 

Is. 9:6,7. 

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given : and the 
government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be 
called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting 
Father, The Prince of Peace. 

7 Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be 
no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His kingdom, to 
order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from 
henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will 
perform this. 

Israel stood doubly represented by the high priest 
in the presence of God. On the brilliant stones that rest- 
ed on his shoulders, their names were engraved ac- 
cording to their birth. 



On the onyx on the 


On the onyx on the 


left shoulder 


right shoulder 


Gad 


Reuben 


Asher 


Simeon 


Issachar 


Levi 


Zebulun 


Judah 


Joseph 


Dan 


Benjamin 


Napthali 



The stones on the breastplate however, were ar- 
ranged in four rows of three; and the names were 
engraven on them, according to the tribes. 

The first row 
Carbuncle, Topaz, Sardius, 

Zebulun. Issachar. Judah. 

The second row. 
Diamond, Sapphire, Emerald, 

Gad. Simeon. Reuben. 



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Amethyst, 
Benjamin. 


The third row. 
Agate, Ligure, 
Manasseh. Ephraim, 


Jasper, 
Napthali. 


The fourth row. 
Onyx, Beryl, 
Asher. Dan. 



As the Hebrew language is written from right to 
left, the stones, with their inscribed names, would 
probably be arranged as here set forth. This is the or- 
der of the tribes, as they were arranged in their camp, 
and in the march. 

Does not this twofold arrangement of Israel, accord- 
ing to birth, and according to tribes, point out to us 
the two aspects in which we stand as believers before 
God, presented in our great High Priest, the Lord Je- 
sus? If looked at in the onyx-stones, there was no dif- 
ference between one of the children of Israel and an- 
other. They were alike children of the same father, 
and each was presented in the same glory and beauty. 
No order of precedence was adopted : no conduct 
evinced by any, altered the arrangement. Reuben 
might prove unstable as water ; and yet he was first in 
one of the stones. Benjamin and Joseph might be 
especial favourites ; yet they were last. In point of 
fact, each of the two stones gave forth its glowing bril- 
liancy equally to each of the six names inscribed there- 
on. 

Thus it is with all the Israel of God. If viewed with 
reference to their birth of God, there can be no differ- 
ence. One is as precious and glorious as another. The 
infinite cost of the blood of Christ has been paid alike 
for each and all. Each has indissoluble union with the 
risen Lord, in life and glory. Each has been loved with 
an everlasting love, and chosen from everlasting in 
Him. And the Lord, as the great High Priest, bears 
up each alike in the perfection of His own glory before 



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God. The shepherd, when he had found the lost sheep, 
laid it on his shoulders, rejoicing, and bore it thus in 
safety to his home. The Great Shepherd of the sheep 
will not cease to bear on His shoulders the weakest of 
the flock, until He at last places it in the mansion of 
rest and joy, which He is gone to prepare. When the 
resurrection-morning comes every one of the redeemed 
will be like Christ, and will be manifested then in the 
same beauty and glory, in which now he is represen- 
tively upheld, on the shoulder of the great High Priest 
before God. 

God has predestinated those whom He foreknew to 
be conformed to the image of His Son : and as seen in 
Christ — the First-born among many brethren — they 
are even now, not only justified, but glorified. A whole 
family, whether in heaven or on earth, yet named of 
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, children and 
therefore heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. 

But the children of Israel were represented in an en- 
tirely different order, and after a different manner, on 
the breastplate of the high priest. Each there had his 
own peculiar precious stone, and his own peculiar 
place. Judah was the head of the first row ; and Dan 
took the lead in the last. The gorgeous colour of the 
ruby shone out from one ; the soft refreshing green of 
the emerald was visible in another; the brilliant light 
of the diamond flashed out from a third ; and the heav- 
enly azure of the sapphire was displayed in a fourth. 
Thus, each had his own peculiar glory and beauty ; 
each differed from, without rivalling the other; and 
each filled his appointed place in the order of God. 
There was unity, combined with diversity. God is able 
to create variety, without that variety involving infer- 
iority. And so it is with the individuals that compose 
the Church of God. Each reflects Christ: and yet 
Christ is seen in each, with a peculiar beauty and glory, 
into which another does not intrude. Each has his 
place also in the body ; a responsibility to exhibit Christ 



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in that very place, which belongs to himself and not 
to another. 

His seamless robe He gives to the vilest sinner who 
comes unto God by Him, and by it all his sins are for- 
ever covered and hid from view. 

While the pomegranates teach us the exceeding fruit- 
fulness of His life and the need of it in ours. 
John 15:1-5. 

1 I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman. 

2 Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: 
and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may 
bring forth more fruit. 

3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto 
you. 

4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit 
of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye 
abide in Me. 

5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, 
and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without 
Me ye can do nothing. 

The pomegranate is the most fruitful of all the Ori- 
ental fruits and so eminently typical of service. And 
the golden bells. Oh they tell of the sweet music made 
by our King. Wherever He goes the music follows. 
No sweeter melody will ever be heard on earth or in 
heaven than that made by this Holy walk and costly 
service of our Redeemer, Priest and King. And we, 
chosen to be kings and priests unto Him are to be 
like Him. 

Not only fruitful in service, but bringing joy and 
gladness into the world as we minister. 

Do we? Do we bring music with us, the music of 
His love? We must if we are truly ministering in His 
name. 

Ironing the wash is a pretty important part of good 
laundry work. But is it not true that a good many of 
us Christians make the impression upon God at least, 
if not upon our fellows, of having come home from the 
laundry "rough dried ?" A striking little leaflet pub- 



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lished by the Chicago Hebrew Mission calls attention 
to the fact that there are many good people who have 
been washed, but who need to be ironed. The spots 
and stains have all been taken out, but the wrinkles re- 
main. God wants a people "without spot or wrinkle." 
Christ gave Himself for the church "that He might 
sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water 
with the word, that He might present the church to 
Himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle 
or any such thing" (Eph. 5 :25-27). The leaflet goes on 
to say: "We often meet with worldly people who are 
more considerate of others feelings than many are who 
profess religion. It is a mistaken idea for you to feel 
that because you have been 'sanctified wholly' you are 
justified in being rude. If you enjoy the experience of 
holiness, it is all the more reason why you should be 
polite. Every holy person should study to be a perfect 
lady or gentleman. We read in the Word of God some- 
thing about the beauty of holiness ; we should exhibit 
it. Let us make our goods marketable. Let us get 
rid of the wrinkles. Job said his wrinkles were a wit- 
ness against him." The Holy Spirit will show us just 
what our unattractive, Christ dishonoring wrinkles are, 
if in humility and confession we ask Him ; and the suf- 
ficiency of our Lord Jesus Christ is more than equal 
to doing away with even the wrinkles." 

Alas, many seem to ring a dirge in place of bring- 
ing in a song. How much oftener we hear the com- 
plaints, repinings, fears and growls of God's people 
than their thanksgiving and praise. 

IChron. 16:41,42. 

41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the 
moon, and another glory of the stars : for one star differeth from 
another star in glory. 

42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in cor- 
ruption; it is raised in incorruption : 

Ps. 71:22-24. 

22 I will also praise Thee with the psaltery, even Thy truth, O 
my God: unto Thee will I sing with the harp, O Thou Holy One 
of Israel. 



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23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and 
my soul, which Thou hast redeemed. 

24 My tongue also shall talk of Thy righteousness all the day 
long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto 
shame, that seek my hurt. 

Ps. 92:1-3. 

1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing 
praises unto Thy name, O most High : 

2 To shew forth Thy lovingkindness in the morning, and Thy 
faithfulness every night. 

3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; 
upon the harp with a solemn sound. 

Eph. 5:19. 

19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual 
songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. 

Eev. 14:2. 

2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many wa- 
ters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice 
of harpers harping with their harps: 

Music we see is a delight to God and only to be ac- 
cepted by Him from His redeemed. 

6. The Girdle held all together; was the finishing 
touch or last part of the robing. Without it the long 
flowing robe of the Oriental hung loosely to the feet 
and impeded his progress. His toilet was not complete 
until the girdle had been fastened in place and it occu- 
pied always one of two positions. If fastened about the 
loins it indicated Service. Shortening the robe that 
the progress of the worker might not be interfered 
with. Here we see it occuping the central place. The 
High Priest was engaged in active service for God and 
the loin girdle made this possible. 

But sometimes the girdle was placed around the 
breasts, above the waist line, allowing the garment a 
longer, fuller sweep, and indicated when thus arranged 
thebinding up of the heart, and always indicated the 
wearer as coming not for service but for Judgment — 
the affections bound up — that Justice might rule. 

Hence the vision of our Lord on Patmos, recorded 



200 THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS 

by John, shows Him with a golden girdle. His divine 
glory but girt about the paps — coming the second time 
not as Priest to serve, but as King to Judge. 

The girdle is often used as typical of truth, and both 
for service and judgment, our Redeemer is the Truth 
whether serving or judging. 

We are girded only for service. We minister — but 
are not to judge — and our girdles are many colored, 
not yet gold ; for only as Christ has given to us of Him- 
self can we serve. 

Eph. 6:14. 

14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, 
and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 

When Christ stooped in lowest humility to cleanse 
the sin stained race He typified it by girding Himself 
with a towel, sign of His rough, hard life, with no 
beauty, that we might desire Him, and thus girded 
washed the disciples' feet. 

The King of the golden girdle, laid it all aside, to 
minister to a sin sick world. And then God gave Him 
back again the golden girdle which He had won for 
eternity. 

Have you noticed the absence of shoes? As far as 
we know, the priests must have ministered barefoot- 
ed, as no directions for sandals are anywhere given. 
And how significant this is, for the command for the 
reverent approach to God has always been "Take off 
thy shoes from off thy feet, the place whereon thou 
standest is holy ground." 

How much this teaches us today of the need of a 
humble, reverent approach to our God. No rushing in 
carelessly, with profane thoughts, desires or interests, 
but reverently, and in the fear of the Lord making our 
requests known unto Him. 

The work of the High Priest in the sacrifices and 
services we must leave for a further study of the Gos- 
pel in Leviticus, where all is clearly taught; but in 



SANCTIFICATION BY POWEB 201 

the building of the Tabernacle itself and in the adorn- 
ment of the High Priest we see foreshadowed that 
Tabernacle of God not made with hands, eternal in the 
heavens, and the work of our High Priest, who though 
equal with God stooped to our humanity, that He might 
redeem us and make us kings and priests with God 
forever. 

Heb. 8:2. 

2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, 
which the Lord pitched, and not man. 

Heb. 9:7-9,11,12. 

7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every 
year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for 
the errors of the people : 

8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest 
of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle 
was yet standing: 

9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were 
offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that 
did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 

11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to 
come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with 
hands, that is to say, not of this building; 

12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own 
blood, He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained 
eternal redemption for us. 

Heb. 2:17. 

17 Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like 
unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful 
high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation 
for the sins of the people : 

Heb. 3:1,2. 

1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, 
consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ 
Jesus ; 

2 Who was faithful to Him that appointed Him, as also Moses 
was faithful in all his house. 

Heb. 4:14-16. 

14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed 
into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our pro- 
fession. 



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15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched 
with the feeling of our infirmities : but was in all points tempted 
like as we are, yet without sin. 

16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the. throne of grace, that 
we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need 

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